On Thursday, Ist May, the construction train reached the east bank of the river at is city, having made an average of a mile a day for the last five days. Considering that all roadways and culverts must be bridged coincident with track-laying, this li. As I write, the scream of the little locomotive is audible across the two miles of intervening fields. It will quire some time to erect the iron work of the bridge over the Pailang; river, whose beautiful stone piers ere now ready for the superstructure. This bridge is special high, to provide against the summer fi that occasionally inundate the suburbs of Weihsien city. Were it not for this obstruc~ tion the railway might be opened to this city within a few days. The station lies west of the river, so we must possess our souls in patience until the bridge will permit the train to reach this, its next Temporary terminus. The date set for this event is about ist June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.