Peking, Sept, 19.
Owing to the shortage of rolling-sto on Various railway lines, particularly the Peking Mfukden' line, commodities are being supplied mainly by native boats, which are arriving at Tungchow, a river-side town a few miles from Peking, and consequently. prices have simuitaneously gone up by 20 or 30 per cent. The unemployed are steadily injereasing in number and with the Mid-Autumn Festival near at hand, the existence of the lower classes becoming more> precarious. Transportation on the Peking-Tientsin railway, will not be restored to its normal condition, until the large: number of locomotives and! cars that were taken away when the Fengtien troops evacuated Peking and Tientsin are restored.
Tu view of the- above fact, the argument prevails "in the Diplomatic circles that the Powers con-teemed should act in concurrence in officially demanding from the Fengtien authorities the immediate return of the confiscated locomotives and rolling stock—Toho.
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