Paris, 01.03.1909, 5 % Gold Loan über £ 20, Anglo-French (Peking-Hankow Railway) Loan of 1908, #B120568, 37,7 x 27,7 cm, grün, rot, schwarz, beige, zweisprachig: Englisch, Französisch, Rand ungleichmäßig, beschnitten, Knickfalten, roter Stempel, Randeinriss hinterlegt.
Paris, 1 March 1909, 5 % Gold Loan for £ 20, Anglo-French (Peking-Hankow Railway) Loan of 1908, #B120568, 37.7 x 27.7 cm, green, red, black, beige, text in two languages: English, French, edge uneven, folds, red stamp, tear repaired with tape.
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Die Peking-Hankow Railway wurde im Dezember 1905 eröffnet. Sie bestand aus einer 755 Meilen langen Hauptstrecke und 62 Meilen Nebenstrecke. Es gab Anschluss an zahlreiche andere Bahnen. Von dem vorliegenden Papier, das von der Banque de l'Indo Chine in Paris ausgegeben wurde, waren 125.000 Stück emittiert worden, aber nur 6250 Stück blieben ausstehend.
The loan with a total volume of five million pounds was placed by the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank (London) and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine (Paris). The bigger part of the loan (4 million pounds) was used to repurchase the 1899 loan (Kuhlmann No. 91). The remainder went into the build up of the industry. The Peking-Hankow Railway was inaugurated in December 1905. It consisted of a main line with a length of 755 and 62 miles of secondary lines. Connections to several other railways were in place. 24,000 pieces of the present paper, which was distributed by the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. in London, had been issued, but only 1,200 remained in circulation.