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8. Sinyangchow to Fengyang or Pukow, 270 miles. Chinese Central Railways Co¬
authorised to raise a loan of £3,000,000 for the construction of this line, which will pass
through Luchowfu, Linanchao and Chengyang Kwan. Surveys completed in 1914, but
construction delayed owing to war.
9. Chaochowfu or Swatow via Waichow to Sheklung or Shunchiin, 200 miles.
Alternative projects for connecting Swatow with the Canton district and the Canton-
Kowloon Railway.
10. Macao to Fatshan (on thp Canton-Samshui line), 75 miles. Concession granted
to a Portuguese syndicate in 1902.
11. Kweilin to Chuanchow (Kwangsi), 80 miles. Preliminary survey made in 1909;
no funds for construction.
12. Langson to Lungchow, 46 miles. A proposed French extension, metre gauge,
of the Hanoi-Langson line. It is proposed to continue this line to Nanning (150 miles).
13. Yunnanfu to Szechuan, 450 miles. To Suifu or to Luchow. Two American
engineers were engaged by the Viceroy of Yunnan to survey in 1909. Probably metre
gauge.
14. Bhamo to Teng Yueh (Tien-Mien), 123 miles. Preliminary surveys completed ;
2 feet 6 inches or metre gauge.
15. Shasi to Singyifu (Kweichow) via Chengteh and Kueiyang with branch from
Chengteh to Changsha, the whole aggregating 800 miles. Final agreement signed
between the Chinese Government and Messrs. Paulings (British) on July 25th, 1914.
Surveys completed.
16. Kiaochow (Kaomi) Yichow-fu railway (Shantung), to join the Tientsin-Nanking
railway on the Kiangsu border; also a line from Tsinanfu (Shantung) to Shuntehfu
(Chihli) joining the Tientsin-Pukow and the Peking-Hankow lines. Chinese State
railway to be constructed with German capital.
17. Lung-Ts’in to Yii-Hai. Contract made in 1912, between the Chinese Government
and the Compagnie Generale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels,
for the construction and equipment of the Railway, thereby authorising the company
to issue a 5 per cent, gold loan of £10,000,000 for that purpose. This line will run,
fenerally, in an east and west direction, through the Provinces of Kansu, Shansi,
tonan, and Kiangsu. Its course is laid from Lanchowfu, to pass through the
important cities of Sianfu and Tungkwan, to absorb the existing line between Honanfu,
Chengchow (where it crosses the Peking-Hankow line), and Kaifengfu, then to bend
slightly southwards to Siichowfu (where it crosses the Tientsin-Pukow line), and thence
to a port yet to be determined. Haichow, on the north coast of Kiangsu, Tungchow
(distant about 76 miles from Shanghai) and Haimen (about 20 miles farther east), on
the northern shore of the Yangtsze estuary, are all spoken of as the probable terminus
of this most important undertaking. The section from Hsuchowfu to Sianfu has been
opened. Construction has been delayed owing to the war.
18. Tatungfu to Tungkwan. The Chinese Government in 1913 signed an agreement
with the Compagnie Generale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels,
tor a loan of £10,000,000, to build a railway from Tatungfu, southwards through the
centre of Shansi, to Tungkwan, where it will meet the Lung-Ts’in-Yii-Hai line, the
company having the option to extend south-westwards to Chengtu, the total length
being about 960 miles. Proposals were also in the air for further extensions south-east
to Lhunofking, and then south-west to join the Yunnan Railway at Yiinnanfu.
1J. Chingchow to Nanning.—By an agreement, dated February, 1914, with the
anque Industriellc de Chine, a line will be built from Chinchow (Yamchow), on the
of Pakhoi, to Nanning, thence through the Yukiang Valley to Paiseting
ChungkingTine a tOWn nort^1'ea'st °f Yiinnanfu), where it will join the Yiinnanfu-
(Honan). Tengyang (Anhui) Railway. Chinese Government pro¬
posal. Miles.270. Surveys completed.
2L Slangyang-Shasi Railway, 207 miles. Surveyed 1911.
™ ^angyang-Kuanghsui Railway, 130 miles. Surveyed 1911.
23. Yenchoufu-Kaifengfu Railway, via Tsaochoufu, 230 miles.
24. Wuhu-Nanking Railway, 55 miles.
25. Central Kiangsui Railway (Icheng-Shiherhuei-Kuachou-Yangchou-Taichoufu-
Tsmgkiangpu), 60 miles. Surveyed 1910. To be taken ov er by the Government.
26 Kwangsi Railway From Garden to Wuehow, Nanning, Lungchow and
connect at Langson with the Tongking Railway. Sections surveyed.