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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
November 5.
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Consul-General Sir P. Warren to the Murquess of Lansdowne,~(Received November 5.)
(No. 23.) My Lord,
Shanghae, September 27, 1904.
AT the request of Mr. H. H. Fox, lately His Majesty's Acting Consul at Wuchow, I have the honour to transinit herewith his Report on a journey ne made up the North River on His Majesty's ship "Robin.”
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I have, &c.
(Signed)
PELHAM L. WARREN,
Inclosure in No. 1.
Report on a Journey up the North River, in His Majesty's Ship " Robin," July 6 to 18,
1904, by Mr. H. H. Fox.
ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS.
SECTION I.
General Description of the North River.
The Canton delta formed by the West, North, and Fast Rivers
'Course of the Pakkong, or North River
Its former importance as a trade route
The Cantou-Hankow Railway
SECTION II.
The Treaty Port of Samshui.
Hakow, the shipping port: Sainam, the centre of trade
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Principal imports; growth of trade difficult to estimate owing to fluctuating
native Customs Tariff
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Principal exports
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Shipping; decrease in tonnage since opening of Kongmoon
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Total values of trade during last five years..
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Drawbacks to Samshui as a Treaty port, and an anchorage for sitamers, Completion of branch railway line from Canton to Samshui
SECTION III.
The River Journey from Sumshui to Shiu-kuan (Shao-chou-fu).
Departure of His Majesty's ship" Robin" from Saashui on the 6th July Brick kilns; the Bamboo River, important tributary, supplies delta with bamboo;
market town of Shek-kon
Lapao; large li-kin station
Creek to Canton navigable in summer: daily launch service to Fatshan and
Canton; during summer months to Tsing-yuen und Yingtak
District city of Tsing-yuen at head of delta; end of first day's journey.. Tsing-yuen a busy town, deriving its supplies of foreign goods from Canton; chief products tea and sugar; a missionary centre; absence of telegraphic communication
Departure from Tsing-yuen on the 7th July
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Fi-log-tze Gorge, with famous monastery
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Limestone quarries; meeting with party of American engineers surveying Canton
and Hankow railroad
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Yingtak,
District city of Yingtak: end of second day's journey
a busy shipping port, present limit of regular steam navigation; river ahove Yingtak unsuited for steamers except at high water, but light draught stern-wheelers might be placed on Canton-Tsing-yuen-Yingtak run.. [2935 e-1]
The Great Temple Gorge and the Blind Boy Pass; second large tributary, the Lieu-
chou River, flowing through country inhabited by aborigines Limestone quarries at Lau-ti-wan,,
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