Peking, Feb. 9.
It is rumoured locally that the Taiping Company, representing a coalition of big Japanese commercial interests, is offering to lend to the Peking-Suiyuan Railway funds to enable it to meet all its obligations, presumably about $14,600,000, the conditions being joint control of the line until the loan is repaid and also the effecting of extensions at the discretion of the Japanese.
The Chinese press reports that it is likely that Chou Tze-chi will be appointed Chinese director of the Shantung Railway.
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