Ie is announced here that the railway is to be handed back to Mr, Kinder on the Uth of January. That gentleman will have no light task before him, for the Russians have taken away, both from Tong. shan and Shanhaikuan, everything they could lay their hands on in the shape of railway plant, stores, and materials. From Tongshan they have actually removed all the new machinery from the new workshops, and the British authorities must have found it rather irksome to look on and be prevented by high policy from interfering.
At the Shanhaikuan Bridge Works they have not even left a hammer or a pot of paint in the way of stores. At both places only the bare walls are left, and experts tell me that the Russians have secured at least fifty thousand pounds' worth of
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