This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government
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33035
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SECTION 1.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 294.) Sir,
No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 24.)
Peking, July 6, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy, in duplicate, of a Report upon railway development in Manchuria, which I have received from the Military Attaché at this Legation.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira respecting Railways in Manchuria.
Bridge over the Liao River,
THIS bridge of the North China Imperial Railways, to the east of Hsin-min Fu, will probably be completed before December 1909. There will be twenty 100-feet spans, and as each of the piers will be over 30 feet thick, it will give it a total length of over 2,060 feet.
When I passed over the temporary bridge in May 1908, sixteen of the cement piers of the new bridge were completed, and the foundations for the remaining five to the east of the bed had been laid.
The South Manchuria Railway.
This is the Japanese name for the railway from Dalny to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu. The new American cars were originally marked South Manchurian Railway, but the final "n" has been carefully obliterated.
(The information about the line from Dalny to Mukden was received from Captain Gillis, American Naval Attaché.)
There are six battalions of railway guards and one division of regulars guarding the railway. There are supposed to be fifteen guards per kilometre.
Many Chinese are employed on the line.
The line is being double-tracked from Dalny to Mukden, and the embankments for it are practically completed, though the rails for the second line are not yet laid.
The broad gauge track is completed from Dalny to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu, and trains have been using it since about the 20th May. The narrow gauge line has not yet been taken up.
As regards the bridges and culverts between Dalny and Mukden, which have had to be altered on account of double-tracking the line, the smaller bridges and culverts are mostly completed.
The following bridges have just been begun, viz. (starting from the south), the big bridge to the north of Chin Chou. Another 4 miles north of Erh-shih-li-t'ai. Another 1 mile north of San-shih-li-p'u. Another half-a-mile north of P'u-lan-tien. There is a round-house for twenty engines, and a coaling point at Wa-fang-tien. A bridge, about three-quarters of a mile long, just south of Te-li-ssu, with brick piers, is being built. It will replace the old one. Two other bridges, 1 and 3 miles respectively, to the north of it, are about one quarter finished.
A bridge, a quarter of a mile long, about a quarter of a mile south of railway station of Hsuan-yeh-ch'êng, is being built.
There are bridges, each about 250 yards long, under construction, three-quarters of a mile and 15 miles respectively south of K'ai-p'ing Hsien. They are on round brick piers, and will replace the old bridges.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government
484
33035
(August2]
908
SECTION 1.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[29326]
(No. 294.) Sir,
No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 24.)
Peking, July 6, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy, in duplicate, of a Report upon railway development in Manchuria, which I have received from the Military Attaché at this Legation.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira respecting Railways in Manchuria,
Bridge over the Liao River,
THIS bridge of the North China Imperial Railways, to the east of Hsin-min Fu, will probably bo completed before December 1909. There will be twenty 100-feet spans, and as each of the piers will be over 3 feet thick, it will give it a total length of over 2,060 feet.
When I passed over the temporary bridge in May 1908, sixteen of the cement piers of the new bridge were completed, and the foundations for the remaining five to the east of the bed had been laid.
The South Manchuria Railway.
This is the Japanese name for the railway from Dalny to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu. The new American cars were originally marked South Manchurian Railway, but the final
n "has been carefully obliterated.
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(The information about the line from Dalny to Mukden was received from Captain Gillis, American Naval Attaché.)
There are six battalions of railway guards and one division of regulars guarding the railway. There are supposed to be fifteen guards per kilometre.
Many Chinese are employed on the line.
The line is being double-tracked from Dalny to Mukden, and the embankments for it are practically completed, though the rails for the second line are not yet laid.
The broad gauge track is completed from Dalay to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu, and trains have been using it since about the 20th May. The narrow gauge line has not yet been taken up.
As regards the bridges and culverts between Dalny and Mukden, which have had to be altered on account of double-tracking the line, the smaller bridges and culverts are mostly completed.
The following bridges have just been begun, viz. (starting from the south), the big bridge to the north of Chin Chou. Another 4 miles north of Erh-shih-li-t'ai. Another 1 mile north of San-shih-li-p'u. Another half-a-mile north of P'u-lan-tien. There is a round-house for twenty engines, and a coaling point at Wa-fang-tien. A bridge, about three-quarters of a mile long, just south of Te-li-ssu, with brick piers, is being built. It will replace the old one. Two other bridges, 1 and 3 miles respectively, to the north of it, are about one quarter finished.
A bridge, a quarter of a mile long, about a quarter of a mile south of railway station of Hsuan-yeh-ch'êng, is being built.
There are bridges, each about 250 yards long, under construction, three-quarters of a mile and 15 miles respectively south of K'ai-p'ing Hsien. They are on round brick piers, and will replace the old bridges.
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