Te must not be—thought, even though the Russians are rapid 10.d builders in the face of immense natural diffienltics, that the new Mongolia railways will be completed in a year or two. That tims and even longer may elapse before the start is even made, for the Russian Government takes a long time to decide on petual detail Beyond the Voskhina-Oudinsk-Kiakta-Urga route—_ little known of ~—Russia's actual contemplated—programme. From Urea the line may be ex, tended southwards skirting Khangai Mts. until it reaches the Alashan rane which run cast and west. or it may be carried on in an easterly direction south of the—western Khingan Mts, to Keralum and then linked up again with the Siberian railway on the Manchuria frontier. A line may be built from a point between Kinkta and Urea to rin as far as Ulnissutai, following the Selenga river in a south-westerly direction and afterwards running] south of the Malnkua Mts.
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