A correspondent, writing of a week spent at Hankow, mentions a visit, to Chang Chih-tung's Tronworke, and incidentally to his Arsenal. At the latter place, he says, "they are turning out a sort of Mauser rifle." He goes on the speak of the Lu Han railway, expressing conviction that the Belgians mean business. They are only waiting now for two bridges to be finished before beginning traffic. By next autumn they will probably have the line open for trafBe up to the mountains, i.e, about 70 miles, and to the other side of the mountains, or double the distance, by the spring of 1902, The earthworks are already made through the mountains."
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