A14
CHINA
Corporation for sterling loans of £3,000,000 for the construction of the railway from Shektan, on the Canton-Kowloon Railway, to Meihsien, in Kwangtung. and for £4,000,000 for the construction of a line from Pukow to Hsiangyang, in Hupeh province, interest in both cases to be at the rate of 5 per cent per annum. In June an agreement was also signed with the same corporation for a loan of £800,000 for the rehabilitation of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, the programme foreshadowed including the double-tracking of the Shanghai-Soochow section of the line, the re-laying of the whole line, new locomotives, and a modern signalling equipment. The Jardine Engineering Corporation also secured an order for £900,000 worth of materials for the King-Kan (Nanking-Kiangsi) Railway linking Nanking with the Canton-Hankow Railway, half of this sum to be advanced by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and half from the Boxer Indemnity Fund. In America the Export-Import Bank, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, announced in June an agreement to finance one-half of the cost of a $1,500,000 sale of 20 locomotives to China.
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