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STORY OF THE CHINESE RAILWAY CONCESSIONS.

Sir Charles Dilke will to-day call attention in the House of 'Commans to the extraordinary manner in which British railway concessions have been allowed to lapse in China since they were granted in 1898, and especially to the imminent transfer of the ncession for the important Canton to Hankow line from American hands to Belgian.

In November of that year our Minister al `Peking paraded a long list of British railway concessions, totalling 1,800 miles, or more than double what any of our rivil had obtained. To enable the reader to appreciate the present situation, let me ach that this total was over

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the concession for the Canton-Hankow line, has already part. d with a considerable portion of ità shares at cast, nominally-to the representa Lives of the King of the Belgians. It is said that 60 per cent, of the concession has been sold under certain conditions. Perhaps this is a slight exaggeration, and i have some reason to think that as yet the arrangement is more of the nature of a preliminary agreement than a definite ba gain. There is no question that so far as the letter of the concession goes, the American bolders have the right to sell their shares; and it is no reflection on them to say that in the whole matter they have only thought of the business conditions and of making a profit. If they can secure the profit without the trouble of working for it, they are quite ready to clear out. That the transfer has not actually taken place is some evidence that the bargain is not completed, or perhaps that other machinations are on foot, with the object of making the Americans more willing to part on easier terms.

WHAT MAY VET BE DONE,

four times the length of the one railway Peking to Hankow-scheduled under the head of Belgian. In addition to the 2,800 miles pre- cisely enumerated, there were many mining concessions to the Peking Syndicate, which carried with them the right to convruct railway in the localities affected. The interesting story of the treatment of the Peking Syndicate can. What is certain is that some American en not be told now for want of space. British gineers who were to commence work on the line railway concessions in China, therefore, excend-reached Hankow a few months ago, and that ed the 2,800 miles of the schedule, and Sir their proceedings have been so persistently mude MacDonald, in his accompanying desobstructed, that up in the date of the latest patch, made the proud and satisfactory declar-news they bad accomplished nothing. As every- ation that "in the war of concessions England thing is done in China on the order of Pekin had not come off second best." This despatch alone, I think it is probable that the obstrac- was written in November 1898, and was pub. tion will continue until the Belgian staff on the fished with remarkable promptitude carly in Pe-Han line, having completed its work, comes the following year. Mr. Balfour descanted in

down into Hankow ready to undertake the the Ilouse on our great triumph, echoed the

Lu-Han fine as well. Any one who knows flattering assurances of the Minister at Peking, the implicit faith expressed by the Chinese and persuaded his followers and the country Government in the Belgians, and the effusive that British diplomacy had gained a glorious manner in which it grants their requests will victory in Chin 1,

see nothing improbable in the statement that mcans will be found to induce the Americans to transfer at least the whole of the control of the projected fine to the Belgians.

WHERE ARE THEY?

What bas become of the railway concessions for 2,800 miles so triumphantly placed before the country by Mr. Balfour in the spring of 1899? What have they realised, and what do they pro mise to realise? The Tientsin-Shanhaikwa line of 500 miles represents the one concession that has been actually carried out, but as it has

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been transferred to the Chinese and lies in port of China with which we shall have no concern when the inevitable disruption of China takes place, it can scarcely be claimed as re presenting a vital British interest. Eliminating that I ne, there remain 2,30 miles to be ac- counted for. Not one mile of that total bas

yet been constructed! Only one of the many concessions included in it--viz, the Shanghai- Nanking Railway of 180 miles, has reached the final stage of the signed contract pre- liminary to the issue of the prospectus !

A large number of these concessions have been lost beyond recovery. There is first the Yunnan line of 700 miles, which was definitely abandoned by as some time ago. There is in the next place half the Shantung-Xiangsu Railway or 300 miles, as our share, that was to have been built by England and Germany in co-operation. But what Minister will have the temerity to propose to the country a repetition of Anglo-German co-operation in China after the Venezuel: experience? Moreover, this panicular line is not wanted in the present phase of the Chinese question. By the elimina. tion of these two lines alone the flattering total is reduced to 1,300 miles, and of this distance not less than 300 miles were set down for the half share of the Canton to Hankow Railway, now in jeopardy, and to which I wish chiefly to refer. Of the thousand miles remaining over, 100 are for the Kowloon-Caston liae, 350 for an exten- sion into Honan, and 550 altogether for lines in Kiangsi and Chekiang. Probably these thou- sand miles will eventually be built under British auspices, but after an interval of over four years there is only one line of 180 miles that has reached the eve of fruition. The pleasant table

of 1899 therefore reads to-day as follows:- British railway concessions definitely acquired, 180 miles; possible, or even probable with the lapse of time, 820 miles; and 300 hanging in suspense. The last portion is the half-share of the Canton-Hankow Railway.

A CHINESE CLAPHAM-JUKCTION, The practical question of the moment is: Are we going to lose by a tame surrender of our political rights not merely our half-share ia, but also the political control of, the Canton Hankow Railway? To this question some persons reply that it is too late, as we have lost them, and others declare, that we never had any rights to lose. With regard to the latter objection, it should be a sufficient answer to refer to the despatch of Sir Glaude MacDonald, in which these 300 miles are included in the list of British concessions. With regard to its being too late, it can never be too late to stop a proceeding before the work to which it relates has been accomplished, and a firm and em- phalic protest now should certainly suffice to prevent the consummation of a scheme that must permanently injure our interests in China.' If a protest does not suffice there are other and more positive ways of taking effective action both at Brussels and at Tekin.

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What can we do to stop this? The Ameri can syndicate can part with its shares, but it Cannot overside the political exigencies and safeguards that dictated the support given by diplomacy to all the railway concessions in ported the American concession for the Canton- 1898. Sir Claude MacDonald vigorously sup Hankow Railway. He cunted it as a British victory, and he included half of it among

British lines.

it is absurd to say that a third party can come in and upset the wit le understanding by buy ing the shares at a premium or discount. The very clause allowing the Washburne Carey syndicate to sell at all was inserted so that the solely American might be converted into an Anglo-American syndicate, and now it is being turned against ourselves! Five minutes' con- versation between Lord I ansdowne and Mr. Choate would suffice to show that what is really a plot to extend the operations of the Russo-Chinese Bank through Central to Southern China can still be nipped in the bad. If we cannot do anything else we can obstruct the commencement of the line by vigorous diplomatic representations at Pekin, and thus, by borrowing the only characteristic of Chinese diplomacy that we have had any occasion

recognise thwart the plans of our rivals by imposing interminable delays to their execu tion.-Daily Mail..

Consignees.

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THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship

*COROMANDEL,"

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowicon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

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S. N. Co.'s Steamers.

Goods not cleared by the 16th instant, at 4 PM, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.

Godowns for examination by the Consignee's hamaged Packages must be left in the and the Company's representative at an ap pointed hour.

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

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FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

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having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees "NAMSANG,"

of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

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Railway concessions in China are not to be regarded solely as commercial matters. They were acquired by the efforts of our. diplomacy, with the view of safeguarding our natural in- terests and securing an equipoise in political influence among the Powers. As an illustra tion of this truth, the jolat German line referred to was to become British on entering Kiangsu because that province is within our sphere of interest, vir, the Yangise Valley. But Hon- kow is also in the Yangtse Valley, and more than that, it must be regarded as the most com

FROM NEW YORK. manding position in the upper portion of it. "ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed We allowed, by the most egregious aupineness that all Goods are being landed at their and neglect, a foreign line to be brought down risk into the Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whorf and Godown Company, at to it from the north, thus intruding upon our Kowloon, whence, and/or from the Wharves domain. But are we going to allow it to be delivery may be obtained. tumed into a Chinese Clapham Junction, A General Average Bond lying at the Office

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PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

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FRIDAY, 17th April, at

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PORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE

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N or about THURSDAY, the 23rd April, 1901 the Company's Sicamsby "TONKIN Captain Schmitz, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargn, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, við BOMBAY,

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Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles bur the principal places of Europe.

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through which a whole system of foreign-that of the Undersigned has to be signed and a application to

is, non-British railways will pass?

The American syndicate, known as the Wash- burne-Carey group, which has in its possession ASK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER

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Hongkong, 11th April,

THE MANAGER, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH Co., Lb.

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THE Undersigned AGENTS of the alme Subscript to the Hongkong Telegraph and Company are prepared to accept I int they are warned against paying more than Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISE TEN CENTS (1OctE) per Single Copy. CURRENT RATES

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