Although railways represent the principal undertaking of the S.J the company indeed is "the carrie? of the light of civilization into Mancchutla,* for in addition to Its extensive railway activities, it successfully operates coal mines, railway. work= shops, harbours and wharves, wa houses, hotels; administers the Railway Zone; conducts schools, libraries, hospitals, and various hygienic in: stitutions; controls a number of joint= stock companies, electric and gas works, shipping and dockyard companies and several industrial concerns and factories; carries on a chemical research laboratory, geolosgleal research institute, an economic Fescarch committee, and several agrlcultural experimental. stations and farms, The S. M. R. is at once the "transportation "and incluse int titan of the Far East. and a sturdy pillar in the commercial, social, intellectual and general econo: mie life of Manchoukuo, It is the mighty bulwark of Japanese inter= ests on the Asiatic continent, When it is considered that proximately 150,000 persons are hired this one company which yoys out {in salary ¥.1,500,000, in magnitude the S.MLR, ceriainiy ranks among the foremost "business organizations of the world,
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