The earth work for the new Ching Meng Railway has been much talked of as a famine relief measure. Iz was hoped that work should be started in the autumn.
Tt was reasonably expected in January. No one thought it would be later that February. Now March has come and nothing begun. The famine sufferers had better promise themselves food' from the coming wheat harvest 12 weeks hence.
The relief of hungry multitudes does not seem to count. A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day to Chinese railway experts.
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