THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA.
ANGLO-GERMAN RAILWAY AGREEMENT SIGNED. PEKIN, Saturday. The agreement with the Anglo-German syndicate which has undertaken the construction of the Tientsin-Chinkiang railway, has been signed oy the Chinese Government. [This railway, which is to be built in five years, will traverse the Yellow river system from the port of Pekin (Tientsin, thirty-four miles from the mouth of the Pei-ho river, and eight south-east of Pekin) to Chin-kiang, a Chinese port on the Yangtse and forty miles from Nanking, the capital of the province of Kiang-su. The railway will be six hundred and fifty miles long, and will be under English and German control.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3746, 22 May 1899, Page 6
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