accordance with the instruction from the Nanking: Ministry of Ba way, the Chinese Section of the Enuion'Kowioon Railway" ig. now pressing the. British aection in Kowloon for the prompt revision of Sun Fo, Minister' off Railway, existing railway agreement. Mr.
expected to. arrives in connection its the negotiations "The history of this railway dates back to 1008, "The: opening date For the trafic, between these two Ports began actually. in 1911 under Efe joint construction between the Chinese and the Brith. The rae Wray is, altogether 112" miles long Sr'which more. than 8D niles were Suite by che Chinese." The Chinese Section' receives. only G3 per cent. of the total receipts. The Chinese Section now complains that under the present agreement. with the Bush they are reaping smaller percentage of profits, From the mileage point of view the Chinese section claims that they Constructed mote than 80 miley and. therefore they should at least receive 80 per cent. foe the income," They want to setts the matter as soon foa" pesable, for the existing basis is: working at rear loss 'On the contrary, the British seetion points oat that" the mileage Standard cannot possibly be applied to' his railway, for the construction lof the Bi sh section in the New Territory was very expensive. The reason fo thatthe British section in order to shorten the journey went through several long tunnel the construction of which more expensive than any other part of the Tine.
The British contend that they would spend far less had they wound up the track around the mountaing instead of passing through them. In. this wavy stated, the British section would be much longer and would therefore entitled. toa, larger. percentage fof the receipts, The British section fas to reduce the mileage by pane= trating through several deep tunnels so a8 to shorten the journey tha the train can compete successfully swith the rivet steamers.
The Governor of Hongkong, Ste william Poet and. Mr, Baket, manager of the Kowloon section of the railway, are the representatives fof the British nection, The Chinens fection in represented by Str. B.C. Hsieh, Managing Director of Chinese section nnd Mr. Liu Kuk-ho, former incumbent of the post and the" present Managing Director the Canton-Hankow Railway. Hsien was formerly english secretary to Mr. Sun Fo, was specially Tt ly stated that Sir Peel accepted in principle that the agreement should be revised but expressed to the Chinese delegates that they should improve—the [Chinese section in pi the British section. In recent years the Chinese section is deteriorating in Jmany respects, and for this reason the express traing have to reduce the running schedule from thro Fhours and Afty minutes to four and a half hours, During the past years the rail-Jways had to suspend operations on Jaccount of political troubles military interference. Ut present Jconditions in this part of the country become more normal, and the Chinese section begins to make improvement on this dine.
The Chinese section has ordered new sleepers from Australia to replace the present dilapidated one and it is expected that upon com: pletion of this work the schedule will he reduced by May 1, to three: hours and twenty minutes in each! way Uhrough trip by express,
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