Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900 . MAP OF NIGERIA a OOLD €@^ST Showing Boundaries under the -An^lo lYenck Coxiveaxtiori- (Ni&er), June 14^ 1898 ScaLe,6pdopodor1lrbcJv 94-69Miles ->(*>. ? , . Sf , ? ... Q ; !$0 4 14°. 2° Xong& Gr. O LongrtudeJB. of Gr. 2 4 CONCESSIONS TO GREAT BRITAIN. 163 spite of tlie opposition of Eussia and France at Pekin. Up toNovember 3rd, 1898—shortly before an Official Decree was issueddeclaring that China would not for the present entertain any moreproposals—British subjects had obtained railway concessions repre-senting two thousand eight hundre
Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900 . MAP OF NIGERIA a OOLD €@^ST Showing Boundaries under the -An^lo lYenck Coxiveaxtiori- (Ni&er), June 14^ 1898 ScaLe,6pdopodor1lrbcJv 94-69Miles ->(*>. ? , . Sf , ? ... Q ; !$0 4 14°. 2° Xong& Gr. O LongrtudeJB. of Gr. 2 4 CONCESSIONS TO GREAT BRITAIN. 163 spite of tlie opposition of Eussia and France at Pekin. Up toNovember 3rd, 1898—shortly before an Official Decree was issueddeclaring that China would not for the present entertain any moreproposals—British subjects had obtained railway concessions repre-senting two thousand eight hundred miles of line. Eussian railwayconcessions figured at one thousand five hundred and thirty,German seven hundred and twenty, Belgian six hundred and fifty,French four hundred and twenty and an Anglo-American Syndicatethree hundred. The chief British concession is to the PekinSyndicate, which was formed to work coal and iron mines in theProvince of Shansi, and to construct a railway of two hundredand fifty miles. Baron Eichtofen, whose right to speak withauthority on the geology of China is undisputed, declares thatproportionately to its area Shansi has the largest and most easilyworkable coalfield in any region of
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