Line to Link Urga With Kansu Cities Suiyuan, Mar, 14 Mongolian travellers revealed here to-day that the Soviet authorities have started constructing a new railway linking Urga, capital of Outer Mongolia, Kuyen in north Ninghsia, Kanchow and Lanchow in Kansu, north-west China. Soviet railway construction already is inder way in Sinkiang province.
Several hundred Soviet troops invaded Kuyen in the middle of January, seized several native princes, expelled Mongolian residents southward and started to build an aerodrome in great haste, the travellers said.
A motor road also was opened between Kuyen and Kanchow, and i has been. used to transport aircraft arms and ammunition from the Soviet Union to China, the same sources reported.—Domei.
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