Railway.
A Chungking, Szechuan province, dispatch reports that the French are trying very nard to get from Viceroy Hsi Liang of that Province the contract for building the pro-Posed Ch'uan-Han (Szechuan-Hankow) Rail-Way, but that as the initial idea of Viceroy (S Hsi' Liang in furnished by regular traders doing business between the various cities of the Two Kuang regiments, and this reported to provinces, their device being that whenever ti while in addi-they are discovered by Government agents Suichunghsien Magistrate man-at the Likin burners and questioned there-aged to arrest one of the agents, whom nent, they invariably give the excuse that he sent to Tientsin to be turned over to ti the firearms are for the protection of their he Japanese Consul there on the charge own lives and goods against robbers and of violation of neutral territory. The insurgents, whereas, as a matter of fact, ths result of all this has been that orders rifles are sold at a high price to agents of save been issued removing the officials in the insurgents, this having gone on for over question for lack of vigilance. four years.
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