Recent reports permit the observer to form a more or less connected been. undertaken the Soviet authorities to meet the contingency created by the Chinese Eastern Railway situation, In regard to the Trans-Siberian line rior to 191 '8 double track mut during the first years of the Communist regime in itu one of the tracks was torn up and traffic was maintained on a. single track, Now the track has been doubled between Omsk Trkutsk and, according to experts, all the sleepers have been replaced and the line properly ballasted. The rolling stock is in a poor condition, trains are frequently Into and accidents a common with resultant damage the locomotives. The main repair shops at Krasnoyarsk ave suffering from the lack of skilled workmen while shortage of spare parts and use of obsolete machinery" add "to the railway difficulties. As a matter of fact, a. similar condition might be said'to apply to repair shops all along the line, At the main stations long lines of damaged cars and Tocomotives are to be seen and among them were recently observed Tocomotives and coaches Gearing the mark of the Chinese Eastern Ra way, Usually the latter trains carried a military crew and it is generally reported that all this rolling stock is under the. supervision of the military and rarely used for commercial transport purposes.
Prior to the revolution Russian Far Eastern railways were divided into three sections: Baikal vailwai Stretensk): the Gontinuing to Habarovsk): the Ussuri railway Vindivostok with "the Pogranichnaya branch). This divi-
Tine between Irkutsk and Viac on has mow been changed. is now in two sections: the Trans-Baikal and Ussuri_ railways, omitting the former Amur section. 'The connecting link of these two ines ig' Rukhlovo in the northern most. region of the Amur rive where Jimmie Mattern, the American, airman, landed on his flight round the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.