Woe hear that Governor Chang Tsing-yang of Shansi province has written to the Waiwupu and the Shangpu with reference to the recent convention between Sheng Kung-pao, representing the Directorate General of Rail and and the opening of mines between the two points in which the Governor requests the two Boards to be firm regarding the rights of Chinese owners of mines. The Governor declares that the Concessionsires must not be allowed to encroach upon mines already worked by natives, whether in the old Chinese style or by Western machinery; also that the railways to be constructed there shall be ound to carry and transport the outputs of native-owned mines located in the neighbourhood of these railways, By these means only can the natives of the two provinces of Honan and Shansi have their rights protected and the high authorities in Peking ought to take lesson given re the Kisochou-China Railway and Mining concessions, where the concessionaires have the power to take possession of all mines in the neighbourhood of that railway to the detriment of the natives of Shansi province.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.