The Archive · 1928

RESUMPTION OF THS P.M. R. SERVICE

First Train Despatched from Mukden Late in Tientsin Mukden, Nov 12.

As the result of the agreement reached between the National Government and the Fengtien authori ties the through train service between Peking and Mukden resumed to-day. The first train left Mukden this afternoon at three o'clock for Peking—Toho.

The first through train from' Tientsin, Nov, 13. Mukden to Peking since last May left the Fengtien capital, yesterday but at d p.m, to-day had not arrived here. was delayed just inside the Great Wall by serious congestion of tthe ling and was further delayed by a derailment at Changli, Latest reports state that it passal over the Luanho bridge this after noon.

The Mukden authorities have handed back aoven complete trai of the rolling stock the Fengtien troops seized when they returned to Manchuria from China proper, these however have been "cot mandeered by the military authorltics and the Peking Mukden railway is as badly off as before.—Reuter, Peking, Nov. 1

The first train from Mukden since June is expected here this evening and is due to return to-morrow, after which through trains are Scheduled to run twice a week each Owine to the extreme cold in Peking, hundreds of deaths are reported by the Chinese papers, with the result that the Mayor, Gen. Ho Chi-ko, has ordered the distribution of padded clothing to the poor.

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