Mukden, Apr. 24.
'The Laoyehling tunnel on the Kirin-Tunhua line, constructed by the Japanese, was recently completed after 19 months' work, five months earlier than planned. The tunnel chains long ard has cost approximately Yen 1,500,000. The line i expected to reach Chiacho, beyond the pass, by the end of May and to be completed to the terminus of Tunhua by the end of September.
The Chinese, on their part, seem set on pushing on, in defiance of Japanese opposition, with the Kirin. Heilungkiang line, the building of which Was started last year. Orders to hurry on this "work lo have been ister of Communications, Anew station building for the Peking-Mukden Railway at Mukden, is in course of erection. The new station will be a big three-storeyed. building in reinforced concrete, surmounted by a cupola-shaped steel roof in the middle, The long-winded question of through connection between the newly-built Balan-Hailun Railway and the Chinese Eastern, Railway hag again met with a set-back, owing to the opposition of the Kirin authorities, who, fearing such an arrangement would benefit their neighbouring province, Heilung: kiang, more than themselves, want to keep up the present extortionate freight-rate—Reuter.
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