The White Wolf raid, like the revolution of 1911, illustrated the military value of the Peking-Hankow railway and showed how valuable railways in general can be in a country of such vast distances as China. The past year has been exceptionally fruitful in this particular direction.
Early in the year, survey work was completed on the projected Pukow-Sinyangchow line, the contract for which wes signed on November 14, 1913. Construction was begun and hea had to be abandoned in consequence of the outbreak of war. The line starts from Wu-I on the Tientsin-Pukow and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.