Peking, Sept. 23.
Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang has wired to Mr. Wang Po-chun' from Sianfu urging the early completion of the Lunghai Railway from Haichow to Kansu and suggesting that this will help in the work of "ro /construetion and lead to the development of the northwest, besides which, the Marshal adds, it iv also important from the viewpoint of national defence.—Reuter, Tue vernacular press says that the Kuangsi authorities are spar. ing no efforts in developing the means of communication within the province, for, in addition to the deepening of existing rivers and waterways, new canals are being dug and a railway line, some 2,500 li in length, has been complet ed. An exhibition of provincial products la to be held on the city of Liuchow, the heart of the province, and ' $1,500,000 has been earmarked for this purpose. It all sounds a little optimistic but as fan earnest of possibilities it is decidedly interesting. of a step forward which will do much to effect real ce-operation between the Powers in their commercial and industrial ambitions it this part of the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.