Trouble is brewing again amongst the Directors of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and severe c 8 of the: Director-in-Chief Mr. Leung and some of his associates have been published in the local papers. Doubt was first thrown on the integrity of the General "Managers by one Li Hai-hi, a representative of the holders. In letter to these, the former seriously attacked Mr. Leung's d said that he has been guilty of receiving heavy bribes from the Directors, that the middle-man, who offered the bribes, knows this, and that one of the Assistant Directors, Mr. Wong, refused a bribe of ten thousand dollars offered at the same time. Such in brief, is the first count of the criticism offered, and the shareholders say that uneasiness is felt all the more keenly, inasmuch as they hoped that when Mr. Leung came to take charge, the previous complications would be straightened out, and sing would be above board. It Il the more necessary, therefore, that these suspicions should be removed, otherwise, when the next call for money is made, there will be no response on the part of the shareholders.
Bat this is not all. The letter goes on to assert, secondly, that Mr. arrange that the line aboli ieataly Leung has been working secretly to
be handed over to the officials, whom the shareholders dread almost as much as foreigners. It is well known that the Government wishes to have a lien on all the lines built in China.
Mr. Leung is said to have been in communication, on the one hand, with the General Postal Board, the other with the officials.
Then, thirdly, there is some uneasiness because Mr. Wong, the Assistant Director, who refused to receive the bribe, has been kept from taking the position to which he was elected by the shareholders on the Board of Directors, and hitherto has not been allowed to discharge the daties that fall to hie Position. are the allegations thet fare made in the public papers. Th editors of course, do not assume that these charges are well-founded. They simply state that the reputation of those thus suspected will suffer unless the suspicions are removed. Moreover the reports of these doings, or alleged doings, have been published in Shanghai, and amongst all the Chinese that are residing abroad, and will destroy all confidence unless they are denied in such way as to prove that they sre altogether without foundation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.