A Mile and a Half of Subterranean Line at Tokyo Tokyo, Dec. 30.
The first underground railway in the Far East has been opened to the public. It is patterned on the New York system and is claimed to he earthquake-proof. Though thus far it is only a mile and a half in length, connecting the important railway terminus at Ueno with the famous Tokyo pleasure quarter, ikusa, it will eventually be ox-jed by a distance of nine miles to Shinagawa, on the western outskirts of the city—Reuter,
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