Mukden, Mar. 16, Construction work on the Suihua-Hailun (northern) section of the Hulan-Hailun Railway is to be started'as soon as weather permits. While the southern section, recently opened to traffic, was constructed by the Soi Kungssu, of which B. Ostroumoff was the technical head, construction work on the northern section is to be undertaken directly by the management of the line. 'The costs of building the latter portion are estimated at $4,000,000, any deficits to be covered' by. the Heilungkiang Provincial Bank. The whole line is expected to be opened to trafic at the beginning of next year, To cope with th: requirements of the increasing traffic, the Chinese Eastern Railway has recently purchased from the United States a number of new locomotives with a. tractive capacity of about 1,600 tons. The engines now Gmployed have a capacity of about 1,800 tons.
The new director of the Mukden-
Hailungeheng line, Mr, Chang. Chieh-liang, proposes to have the Tine, now operated as a. provincial transferred to the Central iment. This change in the the railway would entail a revision of the through traffic agreement recently concluded with the South Manchuria Railway Ca.
It is reported that Yingkow has been chosen as the shipping port for the produce carried by the Tahushan-Paiyintala line and that the necessary construction work the port is to be started forthwith. A through goods train from Paiyintala to Yingkow is to be run beginning from the 16th of this month, In comparison with the main shipping ports for Manchuria, Dairen and Vladivostok, Yingkow has the obvious disadvantage of being icp-bound during the very busiest export season.
The receipts of the South Manchuria Railway for the current fiscal year, closing on March 31, are estimated to total Yen 111,700,000, a figure exceeding all previous re-
Furtizr details are published in the Chinese press with reference the Nanking. teachers' strike. Tt appears they had not been paid for several months, so they approached the Commissioner of Education and demanded that they should be paid least two months of the amount still in arrears. The efforts of the Commissioner to mest this demand were futile, as he succeeded only in Taising $7,000, which is but 60 per cent. of the amount required each month,
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