A Kokusai message from Mukden says that the South Manchuria. Railway Company will ask the Glovernntent for "Y.330,000 during the next fiscal year to supply electricity to Mukden from Wu-shun, where there is an ample supply -of current. The estimates will be presented during the next session of the Diet.
Some time ago it was proposed to build an electric rollway Mukden, but the scheme miscarried owing to inability to reach an agreenient satisfactorily with the local Chinese authorities. The present plan is to supply electricity to Mukden from the Wushun coal mines, in the hope of advancing the prosperity of the cit: It is intended to build an electric rail-Way later on, when the permission of the Chinese authorities has been obtained.
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