Show MORGAN BOUGHT KINGS INTEREST 4 Americans Heavily Interested in Chinese Railroads I I OPPOSITION HAS DEVELOPED 5 ORIENTAL C CAPITALISTS NAX S ING TROUBLE t I Paris Tan Jan from Brus Bruss s seis ls reaching the highest quarters here shows It Is the extensive of King Leopold In the railroad which have hac passed Into the h hands of rep representatives or of J 3 PIerpont Morgan of New ew York Negotiations had been going cn for some time as it was contemplated to com ine French Belgian and American Interests so as to eventually cover the concession for Cor a line Une from Pekin to thus tasking a con line to lQ 0 er 2500 miles from north to south through the heart of f populous China The extent of this project Is cots com compared pared b by those familiar with the negotiations with the transcontinental lines connecting New York and San Francisco That portion of the project relating to and Bankow is still In abeyance but the French vIew appears favorable to I combining the Interests so as to make a continuous route from the capital to the thc great emporium of the south That portion relating to the tho Bankow railroad I 1 v C to have haye been closed by the trans of the interests of which the personal holdings of King Leopold make up the larg largest t part to Mr Morgan This branch of the ne negotiations negotiations was conducted at Brussels The concession Of the railroad was originally AmerIcan and then passed t under Belgian The line is about 1200 mites long and the extension to lo Pe Pekin Pekin kin wilt will be about 1400 miles a total of 2600 2500 miles without counting the extensive spurs toward Klao Kiao Chow and Tien Thin and Shanghai Reports received from Crom CIting show there Is much native agitation a against foreign railroad enterprIses and the authorities here may interfere re with the proper de development development of French Belgian and Amer AmerIcan iran Ican Interests The native natIvo opposition Is not to the Ignorant classes It includes Chinese capitalists who are In In the earnings of the r railroads These have combined with the Portuguese geese guese on the line Une from Canton at h held ld a violent meeting in a Buddhist temple at Canton for the put pur purpose pose of opposing control of the railroads The official report howig the cancella ancella cancellation tion of the British lont concession for a rail railroad railroad road from to and Its to Japanese Is cited as an another another other evidence of national opposition to European and American railroad develop A curious feature Is that the Chi Chin Chicase n case e capitalists do not wish for entire control of the railroads desiring sufficient foreign partiCipation to ensure forel foreign n governments n preventing n the or Chinese 1 officials tI rS The French authorities i u are seeking to overcome the naU native mUon so as to permit a realization of the French branch of the extensIve pro Dro projects |