Opens Up a Fertile Plain to Export Trade: Hospitals Do Splendid Work Among Lepers From Our Owx Nantungchow, Apr, 23.
The merchants and. people in general, north of Kiangsi, are elated over the fact that their rich country 4s soon to be linked up with China's network of railroads. The Nantung-Haichow Railroad, "passing thr the most fertile of "Kiangsu's plain, will link" up. with the harbour now under construction at Haichow and at the same city will unite with the railway to Hsuchowfu. Tis will mean that the country's export of cotton, beans, wheat, pigs and peanuts can be shipped abroad as well as to the north. Heretofore all cargo was shipped by slow" boat to Tungchow fand from. there to Shanghai for reshipment. Huge. shipments of cotton have had to be sent in this slow way to Shanghai in the past. The all road will also undoubtedly help the Lengchen and Funing districts to a great extent, Plans will also be set under way soon to develop the seaboard area where rich lands await development.
The task of ridding the north country of bandits will also be greatly facilitated by the railroad, Up to the present there is no road of any importance to. the north of Jukao, although construction of road and bridges is now in progress for short distances here and' there. The only way to travel to Lengchen, Funing, Tutsien and Haichow at present
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