On the 6th instant H, E, Chao Erh~ sin, Viceroy-designate of Szechuan, invited the leading natives of Szechuan province residing in Peking to meet him at the Szechuan Guild to discuss ways and means with regard to the construction of the Szechuan-Hankow railway. His Excellency urged the meeting to, lose no time in beginning. work on the proposed line, in order to prevent foreign interference. From this it would not oom as if His Excellency were to take up any appointment in Peking, ax many of the native papers here seem anxious to make their readers believe.
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