CHINA
577
33. Nanking to Pingsiang through Nanchang.
Preliminary survey made in 1914. Total length, 643 miles. Estimated cost of construction and equipment, £7,608,925.
From Taonanfu to Jehol.
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In Operation
Changchun to Taonanfu.
Kirin to Kaiyuan via Hailung.
a point on the Taonanfu-Jehol Railway to a seaport.
Government Railways
Operation by construction forces:--
...
Lung Hai Hupeh-Hunan
...
...
Total Government Railways ...
Provincial and Private Railways:-
Kwangtung
...
Kiukiang-Nanchang
Sunning
Swatow-Chaochow-fu
Nanking City
Chung Hsing Mining Co. ... Liu Chiang Coal Mine
Tayeh Mining Co.
Ching Hsing Mining Co. Kailan Mining Administration Taiyaokou Mines
Tsitsihar City
...
...
...
...
...
Kilometres
Kilometres
6,036.920%
...
...
...
...
368.300 15.289
383.589
6,420.509
...225
...
...
...
...136
.....171
42
11
52
12
30
15
...
...
...
16
...
...
...
...
...
29
29
5
773.000
7,193.509
...1,722
...1,107
451
455
...
35
3,780.000
...
10,973.500
Ma Chiapu Narrow Gange
...
...
...
Total subject to control of the Ministry of Communications
Concessioned Railways:-
Chinese Eastern
South Manchuria
Shantung
...
Yunnan
...
Canton-Kowloon (British Section)
Total Kilometres of Railway in China (Miles: 6,818)
HISTORICAL
The year 1900 will ever be memorable in the history of China for the "Boxer" rising, the last and a most determined attempt to break away from foreign influence and to revert to the exclusiveness of twenty centuries. Details of this great social and political upheaval may be found in preceding volumes of this Directory. The object of the rising, which was confined to the Nortli, was the extermination of foreign native Christians and people known to be associated with foreigners. The Legation Quarter at Peking was besieged for two months by the Boxer rabble and the Imperial troops, the occupants being reduced to the verge of starvation. Troops were poured into China by all the European Powers, America and Japan, and it was not before 20,000 foreign troops had fought their way to the capital that the siege was raised. Over 250 Europeans were murdered during the rising, and it was estimated that over 10,000 natives perished, most of them being Christians or the kinsmen of Christians.
In November, 1908, occurred the death of the Emperor Kwang Hsu, followed a day later by the death of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi. This news was unexpected, and there was consequently much suspicion for a time regarding the cause of the dual
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