London vii Bombay, 6th April, Prince Khilkoff, Russian Minister of Communications, has returned to St. Petersburg to ca with the authorities.
He says that the scarcity of cars and locomotives on the eastern section of the railway is being remedied.
West of Irkutsk there are ten trains, and beyond Lake Baikal nine goods, besides passenger and military, trains, running daily in either direction, Prince Khilkoff returns to Siberia ina fortnight to supervise the construction of the line round Lake Baikal.—Reuter.
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