Remarkable Development of Lines in the Eastern Provinces and the Diplomatic Difficulties Arising Therefrom Mukden, June 6.
Two years ago the railway map of Manchuria was easy to draw. There were three main trunk-lines, and] from them stretched out a few feeders ending abruptly somewhere jin the potentially fertile but undeveloped-border-lands of Manchuria and Mongolia, Now these feeders have begun to knit together, forming a regular network which, in Southern Manchuria, is fairly dense, and from the farthest corners of thi network new feeders are stretching} out, bringing new life, progress and prosperity to the undeveloped but} naturally rich regions they tap.
Ir is now well known that Man-curio is one of the few remaining regions-of the earth where there abundant room for a considerable increase in the population, and that its development during the coming, decades will resemble, at least, ense and in a degree, that of United States during the terms of the Protocol, however, date was fixed for the' extension of the Changchun-Kirin Railway to {the Korean border, and so far it has} only been completed for half the distance, the present termination ing at Tanghua.
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