Shnobsing, Jan. 24.
The railway inlakes but slow progress towards Shaohsing. There are only about hundred mea at work on the line between Tsrongo and Shaohsing city and these have been concentrating their effort for some months on @ cutting ati Babtayang, a place lying some twelve miles distant from here. Absolute ly no work has been done on the section that lies between Shaohsing and the Chientang river; even the necessary land has not yet. been so quired.
The local papers reported some time ago thet the line was to be pushed shead this year and that
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