According to the '*Nanfangpao," in reply to telegrams of enquiry and +ympathy, sent by the various educational institutions in Shanghai, for the recent mishap t" the five Commissioners, the latter severally wired on the 25th inst. as follows HE, Tuan Fang wired: Telegram received and communicated to the other Commissioners. This outrage is the outcome of opposition to the establishment of
gretted, Iam very grateful for your kind a constitution, and is deeply to be re-enquiries. uke Tsai Chih wired: I received from the explosion of the bomb sine slight injuries, which will Fe healed shortly. Thanks for sympathy.
ELE, Tai Hung-tze wired: Fortunately I sustained no injuries. I am deeply grateful for your kind enquiry HE. HswS: ih-chang wired ly Tescaped irom injuri.s from the bom' explosion. This outrage greatly affects the welfare of China, and is deeply to be regretted. I am grateful for your kind enquiries.
BLE. Sea" Ying wired: My injuries from the bomb explosion are not serious, and are being attended to at the French Hospital. T expect to recover shortly, and grateful for kind expression of Viceroy Chang's Railway Schemes.
The follo telegram concerning Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's railway schemes is from the " Nanfangpao." It is dated Poking, the 27th inst.
I have just secured the contents of a secret memorial sent here three weeks ago by telegraph, in which Viceroy Chang Chih-tung reported that he had succeeded in cancelling the, Canton-Hankow Railway Agreement by the payment to the J. P. Morgan Syndicate of 6,750,000 gold dollars. This sum was to be paid in three instalments; the Ist to be paid at the signing of the Agreement cancelling the concession; the 2nd instalment to be two months later; and the 3rd and instalment, six months later. The money for this purpose was borrowed entirely from the British Government at four and a half per cout for the period of twenty years, No discount on the loan was charged. The security for the Joan is the tax on prepared opium collected in Hukuang and Kuangtung provinces.
I have Jearnt from " reliable source that, besides the security, the British Government demanded that the half of n engineers of the line should ish, and, besides, if avy further loan is to be made for the construction of the road, the British should have the first option.
Viceroy Chang has also tentatively promised that the Szechuan Railway will be constructed with British money.
He has, moreover, given a pledge to the affeer that the other half of the engineers will be composed of Japat Wang Feng-ying, the Viceroy's Seoretary, acted as intermediary.
An Alleged Anarchist arrested at Canton.
Nows has been received from Canton that the military authorities there have arrested a person dressed in foreign clothes who, itis stated, is concerned in a plot to assassinate some of the high officials of that city. Details. however, are at present wanting.
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