§ 71. Mr. BENNETTasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any information showing which of the Chinese railways in which British investors are interested are now actually running; and whether interest on the English issue of the Tientsin-Pukow Bond is now being paid?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONAccording to the latest report from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, the Shanghai-Nanking and the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways are now working well. As regards, the Peking-Mukden, the Tientsin-Pukow, and the Canton-Kowloon Railways, I understand that, although they are actually working, civil war conditions and interference by the, local authorities have considerably impaired their earning capacity. Both issues of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Loans of 1908 and 1910 are still in default.