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Shumchün, 89 miles, is expected to be completed in July, 1911. A connection with the Canton-Hankow Railway is to be made by a loop round the north of Canton city.

22. Sunning Railway (Hsin-Ning), Kongyik to Samkaphoi viâ Sunning; 55 miles. Chinese capital and Chinese engineers. Forty iniles south from Kongyik opened in 1909; completion expected early in 1910.

23. Yunnan Railway (Tien-Yueh), Laokai to Yunnanfu; 291 miles. An extension of the line from Hanoi. Metre gauge. Built and controlled by French. Completed January, 1910.

Projected Railways

1. Kirin to Changchun (Kuanchengtzu) (Chi Chang); 80 miles. Surveys completed. Japanese loan completed in November, 1909, and construction to commence in spring of 1910. Engineer in chief to be Japanese.

2. Kirin to Hunchun; 240 miles. To be undertaken on completion of the Kirin- Changchun line.

3. Chinchowfu to Aigun; 750 miles. Preliminary agreement signed in January, 1910, for American loan and British construction.

4. Kalgan to Suiyuan (Chang-Sui), 180 miles. Probably viâ Tatungfu, Preliminary surveys begun. Trains expected to run as far as Tienchen (Shansi), 50 miles, in spring of 1912. Extension intended later to Urga and Kiakhta.

5. Chengtingfu to Tehchow, 110 miles. To connect the Peking-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow Railways. Was to be surveyed in 1909.

6. Chefoo to Weihsien, 170 miles. To connect Chefoo with the Shantung Railway. Delayed for want of funds.

7. Tatungfu to Puchowfu (T'ung-P'u), 450 miles. To connect the north and centre of Shansi province with the Shensi Railway at Tungkwan, south of Puchowfu. Only the section from Taiyuan to Pingyaohsien (60 miles) appears to be in immediate contemplation.

8. Tungkwan to Honanfu (Hsi-Tung), 730 miles. Surveyed in 1909. Chinese engineer engaged.

9. Sianfu to Tungkwan (Lo Tung), 85 miles. Surveyed in 1909.

10. Sianfu to Linchowfu, 80 miles. Noted in the programme of the Board of Communications as to be surveyed in 1911, but the project is still somewhat indefinite.

11. Lanchowfu to Ilifu; over 1,250 miles. A still more indefinite item of the programme.

12. Krifeng to Süchowfu, 175 miles. Also surveyed in 1909.

13. Süchowfu to Tsingkiangpu (Ching-Hsü), 120 miles. Intended to be completed in 1911. The line is begun to be laid from Tsingkiangpu

14. Tsingkiangpu to Haichow (Ching-Hai), 70 miles. This last section is intended to provide an outlet on the sea for the great trunk line from west to east, which will be formed by the execution of projects Nos. 8, 9, 12 and 13 in addition to the existing line from Honanfu to Kaifeng.

15. From Tsingkianzpu along the Grand Canal to Kwachow (on the Yangtse opposite Chinkiang); over 100 miles.

16. Sinyangchow to Fengyang or Pukow, 270 miles.

17. Chiocho via or Switow via Wuichow to Sheklung or Shunchün; 200 miles. Alternative projects for connecting Swatow with the Canton district and the Canton- Kowloon Railway.

18 Macao to Fatshan (on the Canton-Samshui line), 75 miles. Concession granted to a Portuguese syndicate in 1902.

9. Kweilin to Chuanchow (Kwangsi), 80 miles. Preliminary survey made in 1909; no funds for construction.

20. Langson to Lungchow, 46 miles. A proposed French extension, metro gauge. of the Hunoi-Lingson line. It is pr posed to continue this line to Nanning (150 miles), 21. Yunnanfu to Szechuan, 450 miles. To Suifu or to Luchow. Two American engi- neers were engaged by the Viceroy of Yunnan to survey in 1909. Probably metre gauge.

22. Bhamo to Teng Yueh (Tien-Mien), 123 miles. Preliminary surveys completed; 2 foot 6 inches or metre gauge.

The year 1900 will ever be memorable in the history of China. It witnessed the last and a most determined attempt to break away from foreign influence and to revert to the exclusiveness of twenty centuries. The causes of the great social and political upheaval are not far to seek, though from their interaction and overlapping they are by no means easy to set forth in the sequence of their importance. The associations brought about by an expanding trade, by missionary effort, and by reciprocated diplomatic representation have not in any way lessened the hostile

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