The Archive · 1934

Railway Line Broken

Peking, Aug. 23.

As a result of rains along the Peking-Suiyuan Railway line, heavy mountain torrents have inundated the railway at Shitpeta, between the Chutseshan and Pingtitsvan stations.

'The rails there are now, buried deep in mud, so that train com. munication between' Peking and Paotou has again been interrupted According to information from the Peking-Suiyuan Railway Office. workers are now removing the mud from. the track and communteation will be restored in four days.

For the time being, however, the north-bound trains from Peking can only reach the Pingtitsuan station, and the south bound trains from and

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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