Canton-Hankow Line to Be Pushed Canton, Aug. 20, The next two years are expected to witness considerable progress in railway development - in Southern China. According to oficial an-Jnouncements plans have been com pleted for the construction of a railway line linking Canton" with Swatow and another line will be built to connect the Southern capital with principal cities in Kwangsi.
Work on the Canton-Hankow Railway is in full swing and it is con-Sdently expected that the unfinished section of the line will be completed within the next three years.
Mr. S. K. Lee, managing director of the Kwangtung section of the Canton-Hankow Railway, who is Inow en roule to Nanking, will Jationd the Railway Conference with [te Hupeh officials at Wuchang on [September 10. It is learned here [that the Wuchang conference will discuss measures for the consolidated control of the entire Canton-Hankow Railway and adjustment of accounts, Jamong various sections of this line. JAt Nanking the Canton railway official will interview oMfcials of the' Railway Ministry and will discuss. railway problems in the South.
It is announced that railway equipment to the value of $300,000 ordered joy the Canton-Hankow Railway's [Canton Administration from British firms has already arrived.
It has been also announced that a plant for the manufacturing of locomotives will be established /Saichuen in the Canton suburbs. The [project will require a cum of $5,000,- 1000, of which $2,000,000 "will be borrowed from the British Boxer Indemnity Fund. Orders for machinery for the proposed plant will be placed with a foreign firm shortly, it is stated—Reuter.
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