Tapping Agricultural Regions of Rich Provinces Mukden, Oct. 6.
The construction of the new nian-Hailun line, that is to open up tone of the richest agricultural regions of Heilungkiang, is advaneing rapidly beyond Suihua, to which Point traffic was opened last year. Earthworks along the line from Suihua to Hailun are expected to be finished by the and of the current! month, and the entire line, 215 kilometres long from Hulan to Hai Jun, will be completed before the end of this year. So fax $5,000,000 is aid to have been expended on the Suihua-Hailun section now under construction. may be ment this connection that the Civil Governor of the Province, Chang Yin-huai, formerly Vice-Minister of Com: munications in Peking under Marshal Chang Tso-lin, predicts that, given few years of peace, Heilungkiang, will be able to boast of being the richest province of China with more railways than any other province-—Reuter.
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