The December 11 Telegraph story, which accused the Treasury of blocking plans for £30 billion worth of electrification across the rail network …, has rung alarm bells over who is the real source of power concerning rail's development - the Department of Transport or the Treasury?
he had reason to be extremely grateful to Sterling, his Manchester City teammate, who won and converted the penalty that appeared to have broken Iceland’s stout resistance.
From Kiangnan (i.e., the area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze river) and the districts around Shasi in Hupei, for example, large quantities of baled raw cotton and woven piece goods were carried by water and on the back of porters to Manchuria and North China, to Szechwan via the Yangtze, to Yunnan and Kweichow in the southwest, and to the southern coastal provinces.
