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KOWLOOK

No. 14,336,

The China Mail

號大廿月三年零百九千一其

Intimations.

Business Notices.

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Hongkong, May 1, 1907,

YUNNAN RAILWAY.

793

Millions Sunk and Thousands of Lives Surificed.

PARK AND DISCOMAGISE OUTLOOK. The news that the French Government has sanctioned the ring of noother loan for the completion of the sadway from Ten- kin into Yannan argues no joy in Indo- China, where the cost of the line promises to be a beavy burden on Colorial frances.. The loss of life on be construction work! has also besa terrible. The Avenir de Tonkin gives particdara of Low it stood with the line last month. The undertaking was set on loot by M. Doumer, a former Governt-General of Indo-Chinn, for poli tical reasons-to kongthen French in- ducace in Yunan-but it is now carried on mainly for comucial purposes.

The rails had the almost reached the 'town of Mengtas or the edge of the high table land which stitches into the interior of the province. The most difficult action of the line has just en bridged over and laying the raila from Mengise to the capital of the province wil bes comparatively easy task. From the frontier towa of Lackay to the capild the distance is 485 kilometres (290 miles). The number of tunnels required for the whole distance is Bet at about 140, mountainoue is the country traversed.

VALLEY OF

TH

The hardest task of all was that of laying the rails up the valley of the Nam-ti-River, fever-stricken tact with a climate so deadly that the courtry is almost without inhabitants.

This fatal valley has swallowed up mil. lions of treasure, and maltitudes of human Liver. The number coolies who perished. there in laying down the rails is set at forty thousand

The people on the table-tand have a dead- ly fear of this wlley. Neither reward ner high pay can tempt them to set foot tberu. Labourers had to be recruited fram distant parts. Cutes from North Chins could not stand the valley of death. Only Canton Chinese and low country Tonkinase eculd be found to live the climate.

The superintending staff-almost all of them Italians-steal the climate well and "made high profite-estimated so far at 30 millions of Fronas. Very few Frenchmen are employed on the line.

Leaving the inhabited section of Tonkin at Yer.be, the lit runs to Mangtse over a distancs of 300 kilometres (180 miles) through a country which is a wilderness and will over remain so being unhealthy

and barren.

LAVINI OUTLAY.

What about the post! At the outset the outlay was est at 34 milions frases. The estimate nor etavis at 166 millions which can only be met by Indo-China raising a loan. The inishing of the line oat of this smount may cost 69 millions of francs, some say that the total cost may figure out at 180 millions! But the traffic when once Yus is tapped is expeobod to yield profitabil retorns.

Thus Opinion pointa tut that people in the know sy that the line wil never pay unles it be extended from the capital of Sunan into the rich pro vince of Sre-chum. Bat, so anti-foreign the Chices Government now, that the French company which constructs the railway will rer be allowed to extend the line finn theipital of Imaan thither. Most business men in Tonkin frankly say that, if the way stops at the capital, its opkeep will le à verg heavy burden indeed even Lough the French Govern ment shoulders all. The outlook is the more serious from there being not the Test chance of the Chinese Government

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