rillXA. 





f..-n.-d. Th- maini f "- * ft: .- : M 



*u in,,- r 



|ir||. but 



|on had yet to be gone through with a* to what 

 i opened and with. a 



I under what regulation* wa* natt- 

 lion to be allowed in forn, 



lat o|-i,.-d to l.-ii.n. a* far a 



r wav i the nompsnsalioii 



in at lir ,!...- in l-li:, of 



-Mill, .if till- 



AH engagement M..I.- 

 r id wa aligned to her by 

 iWt Itritttin und. r (!.. liurnmh (r 



* i.thi-r i-.w.-r without ih- 

 h Government. Itv u,. 

 '..juries acces* 



aMrrn jart of Yunnan, the southern 

 province, of Kwan^i. and 

 hi western part ..f Kwangtung. but tin- |r 

 irr .-|- M"l la fon Igl :.:!.. ;. . i.iih r- .i. i,. . 

 i, mile* bevund th.- 



' r t he open- 



e^missioa to extend tlnirT- n|uin liaifmad 



o, the capital of Viiunnii. \>\ war of 



Cvmngst French engineers will I*- allowed to 



ton^ entered and cleared during 1895. Of the total 

 .V..\>M..nv .re British; 13.014, of 5,220,121 tons, 



lv?l.r.!M t.,.,.. .ln|- 

 Bese;ami an. 



niminlrutioiis. 1 I intrrnal commrroe of 

 Inr^e. although roads, canals, 

 and natural water ways affonl all the mea; 



\crpt the railroad originally luiilt 



ii the 



id now .Mended i" Ti.-nuin and 



>,, nd :n !. din ctioii of Shan ll.r.-K .-IT.. Ta 



inn of the Northern Itailnwtd from Tientsin 



i the summer - 



Belgian syndicate, -npportrd \>\ the French ami 

 n return fr a I loan 



i.QOO.OOO sterling, running nim-tv yearn ami 

 taken at 90 j*-r a concession for the 



unk line fr.m IVkin to llan- 

 railmad. to be 



.lc. ill le: 



.1!-. ld for this concession, 

 aid not obtain th. <yndicate 



wan to havr a hanl in the construe 



railroad system of 2.000 mile- and 



to receive a 5-pcr-cent. commission on all material 



.tl. of the material half is to U- s U ,,pl,,,l 



<ina and the other half o\ tenders from 



abro her protected railroads were a con- 



A line to Canton. :. 

 vhow and Iliiiik'i how. and the 

 Northeni Railroad to Kinn and 

 len. Tl nan. ami American 



rote-ted n il arrangement an in- 



Mio*t-favorcd-nal ion rights, and conse 

 monoiM.lv clauses were 



and (nrman <'.-i).iiali-ti would not Mitral in 

 "d system of ratlmads because they were 

 'indrr thr omtn>l '. .- Chinrv official, while 

 Sheng-Tajen. tl ' Mineral of Kail* 



d it difficult to nil-- ia.OOQ.000 la. 

 native capital that he promised. The obstacle- 



r andrailruod<^iitruiiiut.exrefiltherWll- 

 a* puapuned. The llanchurian 

 ratlruad fr.", the Un^n ctatioti of the Tranebaikal 

 . r:an lUiiruad. throawh 

 Kulanchen. and Ningtu. in ManchttiE! 

 .rSMithlM.unlU.lr.^.willhate 

 * will be 

 It deflecU the Sil- 

 nearly 400 miles southward intu thr frmi/ui 



has been began on a railroad fr4n Shanghai 



ion. in addition to the dinVsjHy of nsS 

 r. met with a serious obstacle in the unwill- 

 . .if f land to grant the right of 



W B> . 



. . , 



Nankin viceroy 

 imperial auihoril 



' - - 



: . .' 



. nforring ealee of land el 



- ....... 



7. 



ru - ....... ' 



fr-.i, .-h-.m .i,d Nankin, and at a 



fulurv ilatr iUrtm... u.i,<, throogh 



llonan. both n 

 those of the Belgian contract. 





The Imperial Government has telegraph lines 

 meeting the capital with all the ports and the 



th the Russian 



system in Manchuria and with the Hntfh Indian 

 n at Manwyne, on the border of Yunnan and 

 Hnrinah. 



The post carU and runners of the imperial postal 

 system luth. rt prevailing have been insufficient, 

 *'. that pr i \.-iie messengers have been employe* I fr. - 

 <iuentl\. and th- Customs Department has 



maintained in the winter months a special * 

 betwe-n IN km and the seaports. The Government 

 issued an edict on Man-h -Ji. IHtM. to .-\i*nd this 

 service into a national post office of the Kuropean 

 t\|N. \\tii< h will lie under the din- 

 spector General of i u-t.-ms, The Swiss Govetn- 

 ment received notice that C'hina intends to Join 

 the postal t. 



eluded with China l.y Count Cassini. the BiBSJM 



omatlep. to the 



nt the privilege of building a 



ulroad from some < 

 in the Amur province, thence 

 he provincial capital of Tritaihar 

 and to Petune, in Kir in. ami thence southeastward 

 d tapital of Kmn; also to make a 

 prolongation from the Russian |--rt of Vladtvoatok 

 .n. hun. u. Kirin province, and thence to the 

 al of Kmn. The object of con- 

 :, -.: | -'.. Rnssiaii Raili atl witl the raib ai P/l 

 tent ; three eaMern provinces, 



Fengtten. Kmn. and Heilun k M hiang, is state 

 be not .Hdy that of facilitating the transport of 



form in w 

 BBSJ - 





im.ires. but also the M rr ngthetiinir, 

 ofti, defcnaw and seacoaeta, The prin- 



leges conceded to Ku^ia am said to be a 



-yaJ support at the cK*p of the war belt 

 < hma and Japan and at . 

 tion of Liaottm? and iU dependenciea. The rail- 

 road* are to he l-mlt \.\ Kusaia at h. r own expense, 

 and are to rrmain umler i of Roesta for 



thirtv year*, st the end of which China, if ** die- 

 posed, mar purchaee the railroads rolling stork, 

 and machine shorn. If China finds difficult v in 

 extending the existing railroad from Shan-Haj- 



