Rail connections with the west of the Province have again been established by the repair of the bridge at Heshikuan. For the; Past two months, very poor trains have been carrying passengers to_ that point in goods trucks, and there they have been transhipped somewhat better trains to Loyang. Since Thursday of last week, trains have been going from here' through to Loyang, but not beyond.
The Society "for Colonizing Honan Refugees in Manchuria. expects a speeding-up programme immediately. This society has) already sent nearly twenty thousand of the poor from the districts between Loyang and Tungkuan to the Taree Eastern Provinces. It has had from the. railways the great concession of free transportation, and has been able' to colonize in any part of Manchuria, by cooperation' with the Manchurian
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