The first stage of the Shantung Railway is completed, "This section is from Tsingtao round the bay to Kiaochou, distance of about fifty English miles. ' Trains are now running regularly; at present the service is a weekly one, to be rapidly increased, however, after the formal opening of the line, an event which is scheduled for the second week in April. At that time a five-day theatre and w feast toall comers will give a Chinese flavour toa thoroughly Western institution which is doing its part in the endeavour to "bust © the Kast."
"great name for itself in Public Works. The Gity Walls are more than half down, but we cannot yet see how the improvement will look. The great new Bund which will now run continuously from Griffon's Bridge near the Viceroy's yamen to the end of the German Concession—of four miles—is being metalled. The werther has turned oppressively hot, but there is abundance of dust.
26th March.
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