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DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA
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l. The Chochiang-Koria line.

m. The Great Northern Port-Hami line.

n. The Great Northern Port-Sian line.

o. The Great Northern Port-Hankow line.

p. The Hoangho Port-Hankow line

q. The Chefoo-Hankow line.

r. The Haichow-Tsinan line.

s. The Haichow-Hankow line.

t. The Haichow-Nanking line.

u. The Sinyangkang-Hankow line.

v. The Luszekang-Nanking line.

w. The Coast line.

x. The Hwoshan-Kashing line.


a. The Great Eastern Port-Tarbogotai Line

This line begins at the Great Eastern Port on the seaboard, and runs in a northwesterly direction to Tarbogotai on the Russian frontier, covering a distance of about 3,000 miles. If Shanghai be the Great Eastern Port, the Shanghai-Nanking Railway will form its first section. But if Chapu be chosen, then this line should skirt the Taihu Lake on the southwest through the cities of Huchow, Changhing, and Liyang to Nanking, then crossing the Yangtze at a point south of Nanking, to Chiantsiao and Tingyuen. Thence, the line turns westward to Showchow and Yingshang, and enters Honan province at Sintsai. After crossing the Peking-Hankow line at Kioshan, and passing Piyang, Tanghsien, and Tengchow, it turns northwestward to