Mr. Wang begins by pointing out more than double what would otherwise' be required."
Speaking of the Peking-Hankow line la particular Mr. Wang says:—
"Besides the complete interruption of through traffic on the Peking-Hankow line for the last years und other lines at various periods, the pile of untransported ous, absence of passenger serjcc and all income of the railroad being "monopolized by the militarists' leaving even not enough for the payment of staffs, there are three chief causes either due to slack regulations, lack of inspection oF loose administration that led to corruption:
In spite of railroad, telegrap! postal vervieo and navigation ete. having been organized more tha: several scores of years they are still in a primitive stage, with the exception of the postal adminis tration which is comparatively well organized but without progress due to the continuous warfare. There are altogether only 7,000 odd kilometres of railroad already completed, a total. length of 87,000 miles of telegraph, some 50 wireless stations, and 100,009 telephone numbers." Government navigation hay not yet been est ablished, what commercial organ-nations possess even, is not quite 100,000 tons. Ax to aviation and highway and all other methods fof modern transportation no con parison can be made with that of the Europe, America or Japan."
Loans Frittered Away Mr, Wang calculates that "over {$70,000,000 is the amount of loan borne by the Ministry of Communi cations up till the end of the 13th year of the Republic of China." most cases payment of interest is long over-due, let alone repayment of capital. The debt is not a large one for such a country ay China "but considering the distance of not more thin 7000 kilometres of completed lines of railroad ud ome 80,000 miles of telegraph this amount ly startling. tracing, the reason of this hack-wardness ye find the hindrance of communications ix due to incessant civil war, the cause of which began before the years 14 hen Yuan Shih-kai wax "1, The corruption of transport' companies and their inaccurate reports as to value, weight, sand rates}
"2. Phe rebates and corns sions offered by merchants purchasing materials; and Commissions on loans, in terest on public funds, ete.
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