This province is not likely to get its long-talked-of railway for a long time to come, I am afraid. The Ya Lin line' (Chungking to Lin. chow fu, Kuangsi) contract seems to have fallen through—the ex-Pected capital to finance it not being obtainable, I believe—and another line, called the Kuang-Yii line, has been mooted, but whether this means a different route or the same route extended, is not very clear. Some friends think the change" of name indicates the latter; if so, what about the money necessary for it? I am afraid that we must, "wait and see."
I am told that a "director of Szechuan railways" and a delegate from the Szechuan Tuchun arrived hero recently, but inquiries have failed to reveal their object in com. ing.
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