CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906 — Page 383

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Hereby complications are cleared up and vast calamity removed.

This success is humbly ascribed to the awful notice of the Court together with the whole-hearted support of the Council, the auxiliary scheme of the gentry and people of the three Provinces, while the Minister Liang Ch'ong, whose ability and experience are alike excellent, loyally devised for the state and suited his arguments to his opportunities.

This was how this affair was accomplished.

It has now been decided that the funds for constructing the line shall be provided by the combined efforts of the officials and gentry of the three Provinces, foreign loans being barred.

But as the funds are to be collected through the gentry and people of each province, each will be concerned with its own finance and railway construction. There will have to be a general uniformity, but identity of system will be impossible.

It will be quite dissimilar from the starting of railways elsewhere with borrowed money.

On the principle that enterprises on the part of gentry and people are entirely dependent on the aid of the local authorities, I submit to Your Majesty that it seems needful to charge the high provincial authorities concerned to instruct their subordinates, high and low, together with the gentry, scholars, traders, and people, in accordance with local conditions, to devise means to provide for undertaking so that there be no want.

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370 Hereby complications are cleared up and vast calamity removed. This success is humbly ascribed to the awful notice of the Court together with the whole-hearted support of the Council, the auxiliary scheme of the gentry and people of the three Provinces, while the Minister Liang Ch'ong, whose ability and experience are alike excellent, loyally devised for the state and suited his arguments to his opportunities. This was how this affair was accomplished. It has now been decided that the funds for constructing the line shall be provided by the combined efforts of the officials and gentry of the three Provinces, foreign loans being barred. But as the funds are to be collected through the gentry and people of each province, each will be concerned with its own finance and railway construction. There will have to be a general uniformity, but identity of system will be impossible. It will be quite dissimilar from the starting of railways elsewhere with borrowed money. On the principle that enterprises on the part of gentry and people are entirely dependent on the aid of the local authorities, I submit to Your Majesty that it seems needful to charge the high provincial authorities concerned to instruct their subordinates, high and low, together with the gentry, scholars, traders, and people, in accordance with local conditions, to devise means to provide for undertaking so that there be no want. 10
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370

wow not frem "ort ga

dorters G000 tem to enth

metroak est mon 800,000 start

vale ku molalvoIT SNI

ondant q

#ho

LAS BOTA not-toff to hook add

teaf midde att vet den noob tinte éman

?

:)

34 0 300 6

Afin de cotone pan Raded on ORNATO KAM

MA ZA Watu seriannað

10 Car

!

bejoi mo25 A

des verdorw enter *

***£= tour #ha mis to nola ebtere”

soat Camp hemit e luze eene mi word ednolbul İliv

ez barabara glaviden at vi ad won noliw adityła to

hereby complications are for over cleared up and vast

calamity removed.

uutõe This success is humbly ascribed to the awful wotice of

the Court together with the whole hearted support of the Council, the auxiliary scheme of the gentry and

people of the three Provinces, while the Minister

Liang Ch'ong, whose ability and experience are alike

excellent, loyally devised for the state and suited his

arguments to his opportunities.

This was this affair accomplished.

It has now been decided that the funds for constructing the line shall be provided by the combined efforts of the officials and gentry of the threo Provinces, foreign loand being barred.

There

But as the funds are to be collected through the gentry and people of each province each will be concerned

with its own finance and railway construction. will have to be a general uniformity, but identity of system will be impossible.

It will be quite dissimilar from the starting of railways elsewhere with borrowed money.

On the principle that enterprises on part of gentry and people are entirely dependent on the aid of the local authorities I submit to Your Majesty that it soema noodful to charge the high provincial authorities concerned to instruct their subordinates high and low together with the gentry, scholars, traders and people in accordance with local conditions to devise means to provide for undertaking so that there be no want

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