EDUCATION, Management Compelled to Adopt Drastic Measures to Prevent Ruin No Fear of Attacks from Military Opium Control Office at Huaiking Faox On Own Connespoxnese From Ocx Own Connesroxoext Froxt Oon OWN Connssroxnest Harbin, Oct, 24.
The figures of the goods traffic on the Chinese Eastern Railway from October 1, 1930, to September 30, +1981, are'now available and show how much this railway has lost in income during the past agricultural season, the main traffic consisting always of beans, bean oil, bean cakes and wheat, clear idea of the returns of 1 for the past three sea-gone, and are those of the Economic Bureau of the railway:—
3028/20 636,000 ""t00 3028/50 Siasé.000 "89 030/31 45420006 st Thus, the decrease on the past geason is about 82 per cent. against What of 1928/29, amounting to 14,000 metric tons. It is no wonder that the management and the Board have had to adopt drastic measures to carry on the business of the railway and save themselves from financial ruin, Taking the freight at a round figure of ten gold roubles per ton, this. gives a loss of over twenty millions, but this is probably too Jow an estimate, and, with the decrease in passenger trafic, the ross receipts must be estimated at thirty millions instead of the form-sixty millions of gold roubles. 'On the above Sgures, it may be aid that goods traffic' has reduced the gross receipts by 32 per cent. and the remaining 18 per cent. is the result of decrease in passenger traffic and receipts front other As the main goods traffic is always grain, it is interesting to
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