Messrs. Ford, Mansfield, and Jones, who are surveying "the _long-desired railroad line north from Nanking, passed through this city last week. They were having the usual hard time trying to "hustle the East." They had had' experience in India, Africa, and Syria hand ling natives but this was the first country where not even money would "make the mare go." Their head coolie was squeezing, the mandarin interpreter was getting his share, and likewise every one in the train above the coolies was getting rich. Hence the coolies kicked and the party did not move at a startling pace. Not being able to speak the lan: guage they were at the mercy of their interpreters and headmen. They told us The Proposed Line was to run north of Nanking to Linghunikuan on the Huai River, thence to Hsiichou and to the border of Shantung where it would meet the line from the north. The Tine through Shantung is to be built by the Germans and this end of
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