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Inclusurolin Mr. Fraser's No.uk, General Series, of :8 December 1908.
177
D H... Chung Chih-tung memorialises the Throne on the importance
of railway construction in Hunan and Hupei and the advisability of summoning officere to Peking to oursicer a Tangementa,
TRANSLATION.
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I have the honour to submit for Your Majestyle
TJAN 20 1909, consideration a humble memorial praying that certEITT officers be summoned to the capital to rettle a loan for the Canton-Hankow railway, the construction of which through the provinces of Hunan and liupgi le most important.
Since my Appointment en Director-General of the
Canton-Hunkow Railway all general questions of the provision of funds, the employment of staff, the fostering of profits and the swaping away of abuses have duv ived upon my shoulders to deal with and I have to exercise
control and make final decisions
In Hupei the race of the line is boul 300 II lung,
in Hutan 1200 or 1300 II, After the redemption of the
concession of the American China-Development Pompany the
Throne authorised the two provinces connurned to collect
the funds for construction themselves; but during the
two years already elapsed the resources of the merchants
have proved inade-nate and up till now there is no
definite prospect of their collecting the necessary funds,
This line the result being long delay in starting work.
in the Great Central Trunk "ine from North to South and
its extreme Importunee to the uninistration, tik Army,
transport and trade precludes further delay.
When the Memorialist, then Viceroy of the Hukuane,
was redeeming the American concession the date for
Redemption was ver, close and the sum of money wa
The British Consul-General at Honkow, Fr. Freder
acting
immense.
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