Report on the Survey and Prospects of a Railway Between Hankow and Canton

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Excerpt from Report on the Survey and Prospects of a Railway Between Hankow and Canton: Under the Concession by the Chinese Government to the American China Development CompanyIt was this circumstance that complicated the situation. H. E. Shéng Tajen, the director-general of Railways, while admitting the superiority of the Hunan route, urged your Engineer to make a survey through the province of Kiang-si, lying to the eastward of Hunan, and while that survey was in progress he would endeavor to in¿uence the Hunan officials to permit a survey to be carried through the latter province. This request was refused, your Engineer maintaining that, as the Hunan route was by everyone recognized as being the best, and had been the only one under consideration in the preliminary discussion, no make shift or temporary expedient would or could be considered that as your syndicate had fully complied with its part of the contract by the sendmg of engineers and the making of the required deposit, the Chinese government, therefore, must fulfill its pledges and see to it that no provincial o¿i cial be allowed to thwart an imperial undertaking.As no alternative or compromise would be considered, H. E. Shéng started for Hankow to confer with the Vice roy, Chang Chih-tung, where I joined him at the end of November. At this place the situation seemed even more difficult, the Viceroy and Shéng representing that probably an imperial edict would be necessary to provide a sale passage, to secure which telegrams were sent by both officials to the Tsung-li-yamen, and by your Engineer to the United States Minister. After some delay an order was received from the Tsung-li-yamen addressed to the Governor of Hunan directing him to permit the party to enter his pro vince to make the survey, and to furnish all the necessary protection. While these negotiations were in progress, your Engineer learned from the residents of Hankow that their Opinions coincided with those of the residents of Shanghai, namely, that the journey was one of great diffi culty in execution on account of the hostile feeling against all foreigners, and even against other Chinese not belonging to Hunan.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.