Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.

Link of Railway for Which England and Russia Are Contending. The heavy black line shows the route of the proposed railroad from Nieu Chwang to Shan-hai-kwan, which British subjects have a concession from China to build and which Russia says they shall not, build. This line is a most important part of the railpad system now projected and developing in China. At Nieu Chwang the line will connect with the Manchurian railroad -which is to connect China with the Transsiberian railroad. At Shan-hai-kwan it will be

connected with Tien-Tsin by the railroad now building, as shown on the map. Contracts are now letting and material is being purchased for the railroad* that is tojoin Tien-Tsin with the great valley of the Yangtse river. The disputed railroadis, therefore, a link in the great system that is to unite Siberia with the rich valley which is the chief field of China's productivity; and both Russia and England are bent upon having the exclusivecontrol of this connecting link.

BOTH ENGLAND RUSSIA WANT IT.