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So it is down no money passes through official hands; through the Viceroy who lives away in Wuchang. hard to say how the stripping and useless waste are possible. Take Hupoi's present general office for the three provinces' Canton-Hankow railway, The patent expressly gives no salary or expenses to any of the officers. As they get no pay whence come the funds recklessly squandered?
The charge really seems too absurd.
To sum up.
Cancellation of the concession required redemption of the line and redemption the provision of funds of which the amount and the urgency necessitated raising a preliminary loan. Having made this loan, the lending country was sure to expect to get the privilege of future loans for construction. Knowing China's immensely difficult financial straits the memorialist had to arrange for the contingency of raising a loan, so he took the opportunity of defining the whole question of the term: for the provision of personnel and materials so as to stop the flow of abuses. Being still afraid that the employment of men of a single nation might possibly involve the risk of overstepping these terms he laid down that two nationalities would be employed so as to check schemes of sole control.
Now onlookers may criticise at ease but the players could not but ponder every step so that after the redemption was carried through they might have a plan ready for a permanent building system. If further loan proved necessary there was this despatch which prevented their making undue demands: if no further...
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