The Archive · 1908

News from East Asia

Peking, June 29, The work on the building of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway will be opened to-day in Tientsin with suitable cere-many, in the presence of Lu Hai-huan, Director-General of the Railwa Viceroy Yang Shi-hsiang of Chili, duly 1.

The Throve has authorized the Waiwupa to sign the commercial treaty with Sweden, which has been negotiated during the last few weeks, Tt will take about three wacks before the traffic can be resumed on the railway from Peking to Hankow, which iv interrupted in consequence of the collapse of two bridges near the border of Hupeh and Honan.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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