The Archive · 1910

The Chekiang Railway

Our Ningpo correspondent writes, on ted, the popaler excitement and soppered determination of those who were responsible for the agitation against the Central Government for the removal of the ex-president Bureau, has waned before irade of the Goverment, and the fears of those who predicted serious trouble, unless the petitions for his re-icstatement were granted, have proved unfounded. There has indeed boon some talk of "passive resistance in the form of refased to pay taxes, but it has been remarked that most of those who have so talked, hare been men who have no taxes to pay.

the date by which the line was slowly as ever. The Railway Barean appears to be in a dilemma. A success sor to ex-president T'eng must be appointed, but with an empty treasury and manifest unwillingness of the people to fake up the shares, or to pay up for ares already applied for the new would be faced with enormonovertures to raising " loan from the local banks, bat so far without success. Money in that direction is apparently scarce, or

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