Tchyo, Apr. 20, The construction work of the Shimizu tunnel, the longest in the Orient, is nearly completed and it is expected to be formally opened for railway trailic on September 2 of, this year, The tunnel which is 31,991. feet in seugth took 10 years in the eon. struction with an expenditure Yen 12,000,000. With the _opening of the tunnel, a marked progress {s to be made in the rail-"way service between the back and cuter districts of the country. To commemorate this event in he a way history of Japan, the Railway Dice has appropriated, Yen 30,000 to observe a celebration on the day of opening—Renge.
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