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allowed these routes to be continued farther inland. Even the short railway
(9 miles long), the only one in China, recently built by an English company
between Shanghai and Wusung, on the Yang-tze estuary, was bought up and
destroyed by the authorities after a short and useful career of six months. The
terminus and goods station at Wusung have since been replaced by fortifications
armed with heavy guns.
Nevertheless the imperial administration must sooner or
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later yield to the force of circumstances, and withdraw its veto from the plans of
the foreign engineers. The surveys for a railway from Shanghai to Suchew, and
even to Hungchcw, have already been completed, and now only await the imperial
sanction. A telegraphic line connecting Peking with Shanghai, and by submarine
eal,!e with Japan, was finished, after much local opposition, early in the year 1882.
Since 1858 Shanghai has been the seat of the " North China branch of the Eoyal
Asiatic Society."