Thus, until the busy season comes {to an end, the amount of merchandise now stacked up at the railheads is bound to mount higher and hig! and. trade in certain commodities is bound to come to a standstill Nery" soon. Consumption centres may agitate for their_movement, Vat nothing can be done when leapacity of movement is well below normal. 'Honan in. particular is torying out for the salt which it obtains "from the Peking-Mukden area, but that does not seem to make any impression on the 30,000 {tons remaining stationary along' the! railway.
After the way in which it has been allowed to deteriorate during and since the war, the condition of the rolling stock may be imagined, The officials are now making valiant attempt to start repair work in real earnest. The engine stock lof the Peking-Mukden is 225; and: fo-day 25 per cent. are in the shops, under repair, Nineteen others detained by the military. This aga depletes the efficiency of the Tine in performing its normal servic When I asked certain officials for fan account of the absentee rolling Stock, they merely shrugged th shoulders, inferring that by thi time it must be well-high hopeless. they say they have not seen 1,900, of their goods wagons since last September, nine months ago.
Monthly Loss $1,000,000
It is not to be wondered at that in view of the conditions disclosed above, the financial returns of the Peking-Mukden for the last four months should show a million dollars decrease per month as compared with the corresponding months of last year. Reconstruction, it is in Chinese official circles, will be initiated by the new Director-General, General Ch'ang Yin-huai, 'a Mukden nominee. With a military man in control, the hope is expressed that the effort to secure order out of. the chaos of the war and its atiermath may be begun. Ch'ang 'Yin-hwai has one railway' achievement to his credit; he has stopped the military use of trains between Peking. and Tientsin. His: assump-fon of office synchronizes with the consolidation of the administration Jof the whole line from Tientsin, dating from May 16, which brings an end the dual administration }that has prevailed since Marshal Chang Tso-lin ext himself adrift' {from the Peking Government. Rail-_ /way officials say that General Ch'ang. will. prevent a recurrence of the wholesale leasing of cars to the merchants which took place a few weeks ago at the instance of military officers, taking advantage of the cancellation of the Mukden order ordering the return of rolling stock to the Mukden yards, IL—The Peking-Hankow Railway: Three Sections Each with Its General to Milk Profits: Cars That Have Strayed All Over the Country Peking, May 21.)But the actual amount of goods!
Like the Peking-Mukden railway, hauled does not agree with that the Peking-Hankow reports a. mil: Percentage, in view of present mili-lion dollar decrease in revenue for ety interference with schod
compared the first two months of the year as) And, the poor condition of rolling wit correspond ing shorter trains and hauls and reduce necess Feriod of 1924. It suffers from the
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