Increase of Trade and Revenue Along Shantung Railway Tsingtao, Sept. 10.
It is learnt on good authority that, asa result of the recent rearrangement of Japanese conting-cents to China, the Japanese military strength in Shantung at present is 15,000 strong and the troops stationed in Peking, Tientsin, and Man-Jchuria have been brought to normal strength, the units temporarily sent to, those districts having all been withdrawn, Expenditure for the maintenance of these contingents has thus been reduced to approxi mately Yen 1,800,000 per month, The revenue of the Shantung Railway of late has increased remarkably, to such an extent that the railway is now paying to the Japanese Government the - interest of Yen 200,000 per month, which it has long failed to do. This is due to the fact that no free passage is allowed to Chinese soldiers and no rolling stock is being commandeered. Rails, sleepers, and bridges of the railway, which had been out of repairs for the past several years, have been either completely changed for repaired by the Japanese con+ tingents—Toho,
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