New forces in old China : an unwelcome but inevitable awakening . THE CHINESE CART. THE OLD AND THE NEW A cart, a carrier, and a locomotive at Paoting-fu The Building of Railways 131 way to the capital. Seeing the benefit of this road, the Chineseraised further funds, borrowed more from the Enghsh, andgradually extended it 144 miles to Shan-hai Kwan on thenorth, while they ran another line to Tien-tsin, twenty-sevenmiles from Tong-ku, and thence onward seventy-nine milesdirect to Peking. This system forms the Imperial Railway andbelongs to the Chinese Government, though bonds are held bythe En
New forces in old China : an unwelcome but inevitable awakening . THE CHINESE CART. THE OLD AND THE NEW A cart, a carrier, and a locomotive at Paoting-fu The Building of Railways 131 way to the capital. Seeing the benefit of this road, the Chineseraised further funds, borrowed more from the Enghsh, andgradually extended it 144 miles to Shan-hai Kwan on thenorth, while they ran another line to Tien-tsin, twenty-sevenmiles from Tong-ku, and thence onward seventy-nine milesdirect to Peking. This system forms the Imperial Railway andbelongs to the Chinese Government, though bonds are held bythe English, who loaned money for construction, and thoughEnglish and American engineers built and superintended thesystem. The local staff, however, is Chinese. No more concessions were granted to foreigners till 1895,but then they were given so rapidly that, in 1899 when theBoxer Society first began to attract attention, there were, in-cluding the Imperial Railway, not only 566 miles in operation,but 6,000 miles were projected, and engineers were surveyingrights of way through whole
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