Harbin, Dec. 19.
In the Jocal press very it tie has been written regarding the rapid construction of the railway line from Keshan to Sakhallan on the banks of the Amur River. "Yet this line is of the utmost importance, connecting the frontier of Soviet Russia with direct railway line from the Korean coast and bringing Harbin within day's journey of the Amur, right opposite the great Soviet city of Blagovestchensk from which point quick communication 1s obtainable with the whole of Siberia. The line 4s, therefore, of great strategic valu as well as tapping an immense agricultural region from which grain may be drawn for export, 'To mark the occasion of the open ing of the new line, the Manchoukuo Minister of Communications, Me. 'Ting Chien-hsui, travelled up by express train from Hsinking to Harbin, and in Harbin joined the special' train conveying some 200 Japanese and Manchu officials to Sakhalian, for the purpose of cele-rating two events at the same time, namely, the opening of the Heih province and the opening of th important new link in. munication, The promissory notes for $130,000. Being Satisfted with this, and fearing discovery, the bandits made off with their booty, not knowing that, there was another safe in which $300,009 only one safe is most praiseworthy and there is little doubt that he will be rewarded by the owners of the frm, 'The night before last another' house was raided and robbed in the outskirts of the town, Dut there the sum secured was not so large.
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