Nanking, Mar. 15.
Total material damage done to the Lunghai Railway as a result of the Sism mutiny last year was put at $11,000,000 by Mr. Chien Tsung-tsch, Managing-Director of the line, in Interview.
Wreckage, he revealed, was done to more than i0 i of the railway track, we sled bridges spanning the Chihsui, {wo locomotives and ten couches, and the number of employees killed and injured during the revolt The whole line, Me. Chien said, has now been repaired. except the two "bridges spanning the Chihsui, the material for the construction of which wil be ordered from foreign cou teles, and they are expected to Fepaired by next October at a cost cof $300,000, As regards the westward extention of the Lunghai Railway, Mr. Chien ted that the Poochi-Tienhsul seetion is now being surveyed—Central Or the $35,000,000 required for the construction of the proposed Fukion-Kiangs! Rallwa; the Central Government will contribute part, while the rest will be raised by' the provi and Kit says the "Shun Pao."
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