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Show China is going to have a railroad, to cost forty-nine millions, and a Manchester firm is going to build it. We think some light-pated critics sneered at Minister Denby when he said that capitalists in this country should build railways and supply machinery for China. His critics knew all about China and were in possession of exclusive information that no railways were to be built there. Colonel Denby is nearing Japan, outward bound to Pekin. When he lands at Yokohama Yoko-hama he will feel vindicated by getting the news that an English firm has a contract con-tract for nearly half a hundred millions, and he will be encouraged to push the commercial feature of his mission. |