The first session of the railway jeonference at Peking was attended by Messrs. C. S, Liv and H, Y. Hu, [Director and Ca-Director of' the Railway Department; Director Tsai of the Peking-Hankow Railway; JActing Associate Director Ku of the Peking-Mukden Railway; Associate Director Liang of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway; Directors Chow and Pan of the Peking-Suiyuan Railway; Director Chao of the Kino-T: way; Director Lee of the Sze-Tao Railway; Director Wei of Kirin: Changehusi Railway; Director Shen' lof the Taokow-Chinghua Railway; and various other officials of the [Ministry and the Railways, and was laponed-on Monday morning, July 25, at 10 ofelock inthe Ministry: by
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