It is possible, nay most likely, that in sending the following item of news I am only telling what you know already. A report comes from Vancouver that a contract for the construction of a 1,200 mile railway in Southern China has been let by the Sun Yat-sen Administration to the Northern Construction Company of that city. The contract was signed during the recent visit to the Orient of Mr. C.V. Cummings, the Vice-President of the Com pany. The railway is part of the scheme to link up the province passing through Kuangsi and Yunnan Provinces, and the estimate for the work is reported to be. about $25,000,000. The despatch says that the President of the company could not discuss the matter, but that he tacitly admitted the truth of it.
The Dominion Government is making representations to the Government of China regarding the capture and ill-treatment of
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