AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
BIG RAILWAY CONTRACT. IBt Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Amootatio»».» Pekin, March 31. A' British syndicate lias obtained a contract to extend the Shanghai railway through Hanchang to Pang-Hui-ang, and is floating a loan of eight millions in London. Peking, March 31. The widespread outbreaks in China have been severely crushed. There have been hundreds of executions in Peking and many ex-Parliamentarians have been court-martialled and shot. China is disposed to court open partition sooner than surrender financial control to the five Powers’ group of bankers. Britishers in Peking urge that it >s time Britain openly staked out her claims in China.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 86, 2 April 1914, Page 6
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104AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 86, 2 April 1914, Page 6
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