Mukden, Mar. 17.
A tentative accord, providing for through trate of freight trains has been "formally signed between the South Manchuria Railway Company and the Peiping-Mukden Railway. Administration, "it was announced here to-day. It will go into effect on April 1 and continue until a new formal accord of a similar nature Is occasioned. The winter has been comparatively mild and sunny but a little rain is falling to-day and helping to lay the dust.
Ronds are gotting in a bad state. Manure heaps line village streets as the cesspits have their moved onl. The smell of spring Is in the air; insects are beginning to get excited, the. call of the semi-deified lard is. making itself felt in the farmers bones, and war or no wai that call must be obeyed, Meanwhile many of the charming -children of China have begun to peacefully fly their kites.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.