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least, that, other things being equal, the country that makes the loan should enjoy preference in furnishing the material for construction. Now, however, an energetic effort is being made by the Ministry of Communications through its foreign advisers to effect an all-round system of unification. A good start has been made with accounts and statistics. Through traffic is also being given increasing attention by both the Chinese and Japanese authorities.

Statement of revenue of principal railways in 1920 :--

Name of Line

Peking-Hankow

Peking-Mukden Tientsin-Pukow

Shanghai-Nanking

Peking-Suiyuan Cheng-Tai

Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo

Kirin-Changchun

Kaifeng-Honan

Operating Revenues Operating Expenses

$25,827,213.65

$10,320,779.92

23,146,505.11

8,528,764.62

16,155,459.01

7,616,963.45-

6,204,604.20

3,512,569.59

5,632,053.54

2,547,740.13

3,851,805.21

3,340,842.40·

2,959,880.31

1,485,828.22

2,188,494.83

563,515.40

1,762,566.90

975,278.17

1,207,921.51

1,430,651.54

1,028,201.87

631,976.76

708,438.25

928,213.87

Chuchow-Pinghsiang

Hupeh-Hunan

Changchow-Amoy

598,042.39

87,992.61

159,711.32

186,072.00

13,034.02

592,917.85

Chinese Government Railways, 1920

91,443,932.12

42,780,106.53

1919...

83,047,390.24

38,440,540.62

Increase

8,396,541.88

4,339,565,91

Taokow-Chinghua

Canton-Kowloon

Ssu-Tao

Do.,

The following list of railways, open and under construction, shows the progress which has been made in twenty years in improving communications in China:-

1. Chinese Eastern Railway (Tung Ching), 5-foot gauge. and thence east and west to the Russian frontier, 1,077 miles.

2. Tsitsihar Light Railway (Ang-ang-chi), metre gauge. with the Chinese Eastern Railway at Ang-ang-chi, 17 miles. Constructed by a British engineer.

Kuanchiengtzu to Harbin Under Russian control. Connecting Tsitsihar Opened August, 1909.

3. South Manchuria Railway. Under Japanese control. Main line: Dairen (Dalny) to Kuanchengtzu (11⁄2 miles beyond Changchun), 439 miles; double line. Branches: (1) Choushuitzu to Port Arthur, 31 miles. (2) Tashihkiao to Yinkow (Newcliwang), 17 miles, inclusive of the section from Niuchiatun to Yingkow, which was opened in November, 1909. (3) Yentai to Taikang, 10 miles. (4) Suchiatun to Fushun, 34 miles, to the coal mines. (5) Mukden to Antung, 2 feet 6 inches gauge, 187 miles.

3a. Kirin-Chanchun, 80 miles. Chinese Government Railway managed by Japanese in connection with South Manchuria Railway. Ssupingkai-Chengchiatun work com- menced by Chinese with capital furnished by Japan.

4. Peking-Mukden line. The earliest railway system in China; formerly known as Imperial Railways of North China. British engineers, Chinese and British capital. Main line: Peking to Mukden (Ching-Feng), 523 miles. The last section, Hsinmintun to Mukden, was purchased from the Japanese in 1907. Branches: (1) Peking to Tung- chow, 14 miles. (2) Peking to Lukowkiao, 4 miles, connecting with the Peking-Hankow Railway. (3) Kowpangtze to Yingkow (Newchwang), 57 miles. (4) Tientsin to Hsiku, 3 miles. A branch from Tangho to Chinwangtao, 6 miles, belongs to and is controlled by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (British).

5. Peking-Suiyuan Railway, 403 miles. Chinese capital and Chinese engineers. Opened to Kalgan in September, 1909. Opened to Suiyuan, September 23rd, 1921. Kalgan to Tatung, 191 miles. Opened March, 1915. Tatung to Fengchen, 37 miles, opened. Fengtai to Kalgan, 211 miles. Branch: Hsichimen to Mentoukow, 27 miles. An extension to Paotowchen, in Inner Mongolia, is now being laid down. The distance between Suiyuan and Paotowchen is about 100 miles.