Work on both the Cheng Tai extension and' the Tung Pu Line is being pushed forward. and there is to be an official opening of the latter in the near future.
'Orders have recently "been placed for a twantly locomotives and' rail mill.
'The bus companies operating south of Pingyao have been informed that the motor road which follows the course of the river in the Huchow area will be taken over for purposes Jof railway construction. Sections of the road' between Taiyuanfu and tzu, although not taken over, have suffered considerably from the' close proximity of the railway embankment' and according to travellers inf Jarea, the road is little better than a native cart track.
The bridge piers on the Cheng Tai extension at the river crossing immediately south of Yuizu have been removed due to the percolation of ater between the piling. Steel caissons have now been placed round the pile heads, to a depth of about six feet, and these, who. filed with concrete, form the found: 6 for the stone piers.
Asa result of the satisfactory running of the hi-weekly alr service, the Peking-Hankoor line. Although Tian in exoron ain connection rom the former place. early'in the with Taiyuanfay a letter"
morning is not delivered at the latter lace until 9 pin. the following, evens ing, an average speed of about eleven Dr. ©. T. Wang, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by Dr. C. Yo, President of Central University.
The Secretary of the American University Club ig Mr. W. P. Mills; the committee in charge of the games was Messrs, Cheng Hsin-tu, Andrew T. Roy, and Reginald. Wheeler,
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