The Archive · 1933

LOOP LINE TO AVOID 'TIENTSIN

Removal of K.M.A. Line Tracks Feared Peking, Ape, 12, Tt is learned from' a' reliable source that considerable section of the. Peking-Mukden Railway, Where it is double-tracked, is being Pulled up, apparently with the Intention of using the material to bulld 'a Toopsline which "will avoid tientsin and Tangku, Tt is understood that the intention is to remove one of the two tracks from Tangshan, the Ka Mining Administration centre, to Changli, near Peitaih cop, it is said, is being planned to [run for about 60 miles from Yang-tsun, on the Peking-Tientsin section fof the line, to Lutai on the Tangka: Shanhaikuan section This would avoid Chinese passing through Tientsin and wou! avoid trains passing near the sca Tangka, where they can at pres-lent be easily attacked from the sea,

feveen Tangshan, and "Changli The tearing up of one track be likely to hamper trafic on that

fas the track there was laid to facil tion of the Tine, however; expecially rmous traffic of the Kai-Mining Administration between shan and Chinwangtao, whence Titge part of the company's coal is exported—Reuter.

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