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milas being completed) from funda raised in China. The total 140

length of this line from Canton to Pekinɛ will be 1,500 miles.

har duzostiutan da li he

a glove sokko VII. tarno

2.

To construct a line to a deep-sea port from Canton a

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eldanu of

nu ni erotég

loan was raised from the British and Chinese Corporation (for

ettol Jang cast

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0o son booz

.21,500,000 Loan Agreement attached) for the Section from

hevosten od

vauðnað oð batnajure

vesab ed) Jmol

data not

moizomieras kot npoi

Canton to the British Prontier. From the Frontier to the Port

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of Hongkong is being constructed by the Colony. The Canton

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Section la 89 miles long, the British Section 23 miles. In-

-cluding cost of Land Resumption the Canton Section will

probably be completed within the amount of the Loan approximate-

-ly, though as land has cost more than anticipated savings will

have to be made in construction which will subsequently have to

be made mood. The British Section owing chiefly to a Tunnel

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(7,356 feet in length) and extensive reclamation of sea-bed at

the Terminus will probably cost about £1,100,000 and will be

paid for by repayments of the Loan made to China. Thus the

British Railway forms the terminal section of a line which will

ultimately extend from Hongkong (Kowloon) to Poking and beyond.

There is no other terminus which can rival the advantages of

Hongkong, but the Chinese no doubt resent the terminus of this

PIL, Meldon, so ANSTVO 0 11 mun. 1 mla *-

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lano" eda cron't boomwudo nakzqPSKADO

od aron Lyrair

tejagimdanna (nome") } a common

main trunk line being in Poreign Territory and it is conceiv-

-able that the port of Whampoa (4 miles from Canton) might be

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dredged and converted into a port, furing the currency of the

Loen