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manufacture where these are of equal price and quality, and it is to be in commutation of all commissions to which the Corporation and its agents are entitled, and of payments for all services which they may properly be called upon to render in respect to this") railway, and in their quality of trustees for the bondholders, for whom they will be empowered to act in all questions arising out of the Agreement.
12. The Corporation may, subject to all its obligations, transfer or delegate all or any of its rights, powers, and discretions to its successors or assigns, but it shall not transfer its rights under the Agreement to any other nation or nationality than British or Chinese.
13. The Agreement will be signed under the authority of an Imperial Ediet officially communicated to the British Minister in Peking by the Wai-wu Pu.
14. The Agreement will be signed in English and Chinese; in the event of any ques tion arising as to the interpretation of the contract the English text will be accepted as the standard.
Peking, August 26, 1907.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 421.)
No. 1.
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[October 21.]
SECTION 3.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received October 21.) Sir,
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith Report upon the Province of
Peking, September 3, 1907. Shan-hsi by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira, Military Attaché to this Legation.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
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Inclosure in No. 1.
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira respecting the Shan-hsi Railway.
THIS railway runs from Chen-t'ou, about 9 miles (30 l) south of Cheng-ting-fu. The line is worked by French engineers, whilst the Chinese employés (station-masters, ticket collectors, engine drivers, &c.) are mostly from Fu-chieh Province, or Western Chih-li, who have been on the Ching-han Railway.
One French Superintendent travels on the passenger trains. At present two passenger trains run each way daily between Chen-t'ou and Shou-yang Hsien, and also between Shou-yang Hsien and Tung-chao-chuang, 39 kilom. (24 miles) from Tai-yüan-fu, the present terminus of the line. Two or three coal trains also run daily each way according to requirements. The line is single, and 1 metre gauge.
1:45 P.M.
Leaving Peking at 7 A.M. by the Ching-han Railway, Chen-t'ou is reached at It is about 100 yards from this station to the station of the Shan-hsi line. The train was supposed to leave at 2-15 P.M. I inclose actual times of departure and arrival of my train.
N.B.-Right and left mean north and south of line.
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