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shareholders are Ch'ên Fang, an American Chinese
subject, and Lu Chiu, a Portuguese Chinese subject;
the latter until recently farmed the Wei-hsing and
the White Pigeon Lotteries from the Viceroy. These
two are said to hold one half of all the shares be-
tween them, the other half being held by various
Macao Chinese and, to a small extent, by certain
Portuguese.
It is said that the line will not run direct to
Canton, but to Samshui, connecting at that place with
the Canton-Samshui Railway. This would be a consid-
erable détour, but may be due to the necessity of
avoiding the large amount of bridging that would be
required on the direct route, which would involve too
heavy a capital expenditure. But as a matter of
fact more than one route is under consideration, no
one of which has yet been definitely selected.
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