Repairs to Peking-Mukden Line Washed Away by Downpours Mukien, Aug. 13.
The flooded section of the Peking-Mukden Railway outside the Great Wall is still impassable, according to information from the Railway Administration.
While traffic is operating normally on the southern section of the line, efforts of the railway engineers to effect repairs to the Manchurian section of the railway have not yet been successful. Taking advantage of the cessation of rain at Chenehiatun, the engineers hastened to repair the tracks there but a recurrence of heavy rainfall on the 12th swept away whatever repairs had been made. It is stated that eight sections of the railway track in' Manchuria have been washed away, while.a number of coaches} are lying partly submerged in water.
Further reports received state that communications on the various branch lines at Yinkow, Tatung and Chachien have also been suspended on account of inundation.
The number of flood victims in Suichung, north of Shanhaikuan, has mounted up to 3,000, Almost half of the houses in the city have collapsed—Kuo Min.
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