By Orrin Keith, Chita, July 11.
When the Far Eastern Republic government began to find its feet Fast year, was recognized by one fter the other of the local proional governments in eastern iberia, found time to look about and see w was to be done next, did not take its leaders long io realize that one of their biggest internal problems s that transportation. Look at a map the country east of Baikal which shows the towns, and you will find that the entire population is lined up along the thin line of railroad that runs from the Lake churia Station, from ari sk, and from there to To speak of railway figure, but in eastern the railway constitutes practically the whole system of the country. In time of peace it is the life of the people and during the civil war the rail-always in the centre of After thibe sot war as part of "Psavist, Russia, when—railway repairs and new construction had to wait upon the requirements for ammunition and armaments three more years of civil war ing which side frequently found it a ter of mili necessity to destroy parts of the tervention which had placed the after two years of foreign in-
terminus of the whole tem and its most. important junction point in the hands of Japan. nochekoff and his associates appreciated the fact that the task of reorganization required a man of large calibre and they finally fixed upon one Shatov the man they needed. He was accordingly sent for and put on the job, where he has been ever since.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.