'The original project had called for' a breakwater 5,000 ft. long, project ing southward, with berthing capacity for 40 steamships of a draft not exceeding 30 ft.
Later the Lienchanfang Railway and Commercial Port Ca, to be capitalized at $20,000,000 had been Proposed, but this project failed because the Ministry of Communica-_ tions at Peking was at work on similar project. The Ministry is said to have obtained the consent of the British Government for the. appropriation of $5,000,000 from the net profit of the P. M. R. (in which English Investments were heavy) as Its share of the capital for the proposed development.
1930 the sixth attempt to develop this port resulted In an agreement between Gen. Kao, Direc-for at the Peining Railway, with instructions from the Central Government and under.the supervision of the Northeastern (Manchurian) [Commission of Communications, and} 'Mr. R. de Vos, representing' the Netherlands Harbour Works Ca,
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