The long moribui Railway project the native ne ems resuscitated. They report that a Belgian engineer has recently.
ted Shansi and has sed a change in the route, from the east to the west side of the contract Shansi_ plain. So built the way would pass through the lend-coal producing and industrial istriets of this part of Shansi, and would have its terminus, for the present, at, Fenchow,, Sha.
would, however, pass' by the cee "of" "Pingyeo,? Kiksien and Taiko, which are the great banking centres of the province, and it is not likely the gentry of those districts will submit to the change without protest. It remains to be seen if anything will come of this new movement.
The Rev. Albert Lutley, of the China Inland Mission, for many years superintendent of that Mi sion in this province, has recently. returned with Mrs. Lutley and at present visiting the stations of the Mission in south—Shansi Another recent visitor to Shansi has been Commissioner Pearce of Peking, head of the Salvation, 'Army in North China, who has been inspecting the stations of the Army in this province. His mes sages, both in and out of the S. A. halls,' have been greatly appreciate Dr. J. H. Gray, of the YMC. A., has also: spent two or three weeks: in Shansi, lecturing in Taiyuanfi Fenchow and Taku. His. work has been very effective, _particularly among the great' st population of Taiyuanfu,
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