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LAcroniré Fixancibre," aweekly paper published at Brussels devoted to economic interests, contains in recent issues a couple of articles on the Peking-Hankow railway, a summary of which cannot fail to be of interest. That the writer isprejudiced against the undertaking, for reasons that do not appear, is evident, and his criticisms must not therefore be taken as being impartial. He begins by pointing out that, excluding the 90 miles from Fengtai to Paotingfir, which were built by Mr. Kinder and taken over by the Belgian company ae. The structed in three and a-half HE. induce-{ment te give sion ton cost of over £2,500.000 while the company are bound by their contract to build 700 miles in five years at a was that Belgium ywer which had no. cost of £4.500,000. the amount of the Joan issued in April 1899 and Ma 19 A rule-of-three stun that to complete the line at the progress so far made will take twenty years and cost about £15,000.000, is pointed out that there have been any ch ims she might have here: ter tem si nection with the conin Loup the i pany:
and te no engineering ditliculties to be months the enterprise surmounted. The coun is flat he speech of M. Caillaux and no embankments been required, There are no roads, therefore no level crossing streams encountered are mostly water-courses general so that!
Finanes Minister, to the in 101: " The being an have asked pany toe a larger num-only rudimentary wooden ber of our camp and to dis-ave been required, The rails are ani ost interesting fv ty southward, should be ~This ly not all, Intu this company it ni which has it will not be long. it sail, before a Russian clement is introduced. We know how perseveringly the Russians are pushing their is towards Pu notre' 1 notion with their til say, is aw top their in distant ent bath that.
ther ave exceptions rule. this kind.
We shall then son havea Fran jan which spirit of we ions simply are they chances. the notably all the surprises, the Russian, pending it becoming. wor simply still. and this: will be its I eplisis, exclusively Russi seen tingencies of internat combinations, small 8 hen under the eanduer. like a full orchestra. of out maneiers, cially runs a great risk of finding we shall have pull itself made a dupe. 1 facts the the cheatmuts wut of the fire—for whom the Cossacks, Tu 1896 a groupe of Belgien mutch for iers and mane fi writer for the new, but itis into sting Thanks to othe story confirmed by and quiet support of 1 felyian pblici aver his thus from the first sce own neue.
ges from her tutelary in vention, the company concluded in 1898 with the Chin Tur second 3 contract te build a rally this railway in long between fire and it is of conse Hankow.
The Chines stool that we are only translating istted a guld loan of aby and emnpressing what any contempt of which about £2.500.000 write to the public in April Is responsibility for remaining £2.000,000 realy. tee bee something until March 190 ties than li—is an answer to too mit a question frum a subscriber wh in Belginn acknowledging that the Bi that France up one-third not held tas they of the on that a the en' important part of the ph is worth, ete, should go to Frene ing' establishments.
Lille, ete. Our big neigh! undertook to lend us if required the help of her diplo and her iron-! clads." This is an anusing common: tary on the statement made at the line. The ner the time, it will be remembered. that hours by) stew from an uncertain
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