CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 490

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RAILWAYS IN CHINA. BRITISH CONCESSION THREATENED,

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

SHANGHAI, Oct. 18.

The success of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's efforts to cancel the Canton-Han-kau railway

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agreement has encouraged the issue of an imperial! the wo edict, dated September 23, approving the recona- mendation of the Board of Commerce that similar cancellation should be applied to the preliminary! agreement with the British and Chinese Corpora- tion for the Su-chau-Hang-chau line. The Viceroy Chou-fu is directed to devise ways and means for carrying out this instruction. The movement has the support of the gentry and merchant classes in Che-kiang province and receives enthusiastic notice from the China for the Chinese " section of the local Press.

Influential native opinion blames the British | concessionnaires for the delay in the signature of the final contract for this railway, though the cause really lies in the habits of procrastination of Sheng, Director-General of Railways. official returned from Peking on September 30, since which date he has been occupied in negotiating the German commercial treaty.

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The Viceroy Chou-fu, who has been a target for the denunciation of the censors during the past!. six months, is to-day reported to have been trans- ferred to the Fu-chau Viceroyalty, Tuan-fang being nominated to the Nanking Viceroyalty.

HONG-KONG, Oct. 12.*

The Government is introdueing an Ordinance į in Council raising a loan of £2,000,000 for the Kowloon Railway and other railway purposes.

Renter'a Agency states that one million sterling of the loan mentioned in the above telegram is required in connexion with an advance made by the Government of Hong-kong to the Chinese anthorities for the purpose of enabling China to acquire from ад American syndicate their interest in the concession granted for the con- struction of the Cauton-Han-kau railway, a line which, when completed, will have the greatest commercial importance for Hong-kong.

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