The Ministry of Railways offcialannounced to-day that $1,000,000, out of a total of $1,600,000 of the Belgian' Boxer Indemnity Fund, will be used for the purchase of new, rolling stock for the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. This purchase will include restaurant cars, mail and baggage vans and first and second class. coaches. The balance will be used for the purchase of steel goods-wagons to be distributed among the government railways.
Recently, through the Purchasing Commission, the Ministry invited tenders for the supply of ten. "Mikado" type locomotives for the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. The selection fell on the Baldwin Locomotive Works, whose agents in China are Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Ca, Ltd. According to the locomotive com-Pany, the ten locomotives are being shipped to China by a specially jctartered steamer which is due to arrive in China about- the end of September. The delivery is to be effected at Tsingtao, where the locomotives can be easily landed and itched on to the Tientsin-Pukow Tenders for nine locomotives of the "Pacific" type, 100 steel goods. wagons, of 40 tons capacity, and frames for passenger ears are being invited in London by the [British and Chinese Corporation on behalf of the Ministry. The new rolling stock will be for the Shang-fai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hang-_ chow lines. The amount involved is. approximately £160,000,—Reuter,
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