554
CHINA
33. Nanking to Pingsiang through Nanchang.
Preliminary survey made in 1914
Total length, 643 miles. Estimated cost of construction and equipment, £7,608,925.
From Taonanfu to Jehol.
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19
Changchun to Taonanfu.
Kirin to Kaiyuan via Hailung.
a point on the Taonanfu-Jehol Railway to a seaport.
Government Railways
Operation by construction forces:-
In Operation
Lung Hai Hupeh-Hunan
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Kilometres
Kilometres
6,036.920
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368.300 15.289
383.589
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6,420.509
Total Government Railways
Provincial and Private Railways:-
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Kiukiang-Nanchang
Kwangtung
Sunning
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Swatow-Chaochow-fu
Nanking City
Chung Hsing Mining Co.
Liu Chiang Coal Mine
Tayeh Mining Co.
Ching Hsing Mining Co.
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...225 ...136 ...171
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Kailan Mining Administration Taiyaokou Mines
Tsitsihar City
Ma Chiapu Narrow Gauge
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Total subject to control of the Ministry of Communications
Concessioned Railways:-
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42
11
52
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12
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30
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15
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16
29
29
5
773.000
7,193.509
Chinese Eastern
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South Manchuria.
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Shantung
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Yunnan
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...1,722 ...1,107
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451 465
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35
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3,780.000
Canton-Kowloon (British Section)
Total Kilometres of Railway in China (Miles: 6,818)
HISTORICAL
10,973.500
The year 1900 will ever be memorable in the history of China for the "Boxer rising, the last and a most determined attempt to break away from foreign influence and to revert to the exclusiveness of twenty centuries. Details of this great social and political upheaval may be found in preceding volumes of this Directory. The object! of the rising, which was confined to the North, was the extermination of foreign native Christians and people known to be associated with foreigners. The Legation Quarter at Peking was besieged for two months by the Boxer rabble and the Imperial troops, the occupants being reduced to the verge of starvation. Troops were poured into China by all the European Powers, America and Japan, and it was not before 20,000 foreign troops had fought their way to the capital that the siege was raised Over 250 Europeans were murdered during the rising, and it was estimated that overs 10,000 natives perished, most of them being Christians or the kinsmen of Christians.
In November, 1908, occurred the death of the Emperor Kwang Hsu, followed a day later by the death of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi. This news was unexpected, and there was consequently much suspicion for a time regarding the cause of the dual demise. The public were soon satisfied, however, that the deaths were due to perfectly