'A question having been asked us with regard to the new Kiachta telegraph lin: just opened to international trafic, to whom the line belongs, we may state here for the information of those who wish to know that it belongs to the Chinese Telegraph Administration and was constructed by H. E. Sheng Kung-pao at some expense for the convenience of the public, As a matter of fact the Kiachta line would have been, we a credibly informed, opened to the publ some two years ago but for obstructions caused by Russian influences at work ever since its construction—obstructions a night-mare, have been oppressing Chinese freedom of movement since 1900.
Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, according to a Tientsin telegram, left his home in Nanp'thsien, Tientsin prefecture, for Hankow on the 23rd instant and is expected to arrive at the latter place, travelling part of the way by the Lu-Han railway, on or about the 2nd proximo. H.E. is accompanied by his faithful henchman, Mr. Liang Tun-yen, one of the returned American students, an ex-Yale University-man, and Taotai-desi of Hankow (the Han-Huang-Kui Intendancy of Hupeh province).
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.