is tory to learn tha contradistinction to the fends have delayed work on the southern end of the Canton-Hankow Railway, peace and harmony reign over the const tion preliminaries on the twortlern section. The work for 148 miles frou:
Wochang is in charge of Mr. G. Moore, Engineer-in-Chief of the Hankow Waterworks, and the ceremony of turning the first sod will be performed by Viceroy Chen Kuei-long in October. The railway property at Wuchang is on the river and will afford excellent wharfage. The problem of emmunication between the two sections of Chin: grand: trank line from Peking to Canton has not yet been solved. By no means the most unlikely solution is atupnel under the Yangtze, which ix about a mile wide at this point, but lends itself to " workable gradient.
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