Kirin-Changchun 4-4-0 Locomotives in China

Class 107 (Locobase 14225)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 49, p. 226. Works numbers were 40027-40030 in June 1913.

The Kirin-Changchun Railway, which was built by foreign interests near Manchuria (then a colony of Japan), appeared in the notorious 21 Demands issued by the Japanese to China in 1915.(The 21 Demands sought to establish Japan as China's pre-eminent economic partner and for China to do so with little freedom of action.) In Article 7, the Japanese proposed that China agree promptly "to make a fundamental revision of the Kirin-Changchun Railway Loan Agreement, taking as a standard the provisions in railway loan agreements made heretofore between China and foreign financiers. If, in future, more advantageous terms than those in existing railway loan agreements are granted to foreign financiers in connexion with railway loans, the above agreement shall again be revised in accordance with Japan's wishes."

In the subsequent negotiations, coerced by a Japanese threat to take "independent action", the Chinese agreed to a revised loan agreement that provided for Japanese control of the K-C management.