Resumption of Service: Through Trains Again Running After Local Repairs We are informed that the normal service of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, which was interrupted owing to the movement. of troops and the damage caused by the retreating Fengtien army, will b2 resumed in a day or two. All trains are now being run s usual with the exception of the expresses.
The local situation is gradually settling down and the line is being cleared up. Fortunately none of the rolling stock was removed by the Fengtien troops during their retirement.
It will be recalled that when Marshal Chang Tso-lin was defeated by Marshal Wu Pei-fu in 1922 he commandeered @ considerable number of carriages and vans from the Tientsin-Pukow and Peking-Har kow Lines and when Gen, Chang Chung-chang, who commanded the First' Fengtien Army, came to Shanghai with his Russian troops 1 Chi Heieh-yuan' he brought many wagons here with him from the two railways already mentioned, well as the PekingsMukden Railws in the north. They found no di culty in transporting them across the Yangtze.
The Shanghai-Hangchow Line is nom being run as usual and pai sengers coming from Hangchow report that everything is just under normal conditions and that they have met with little or inconvenience.
The railway people are to be congratulated upon their efforts to maintain a service and give every convenience to the public under the existing difficult conditions,
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