Direct Express From Canton to Lokchang Canton, May 30.
In an interview here to-day, tne assistant managing-director of' the southern section of the Canton-Han(bw Railway said that a direct express service between Canton and Lokehang would be started on August 15.
The Ministry' of Railways, ne jaded, nad floated a loan of £1,400,- 000 through Shanghai banks. for \completion of the " Canton-Hankow Iline. 'The programme. of work included four sections, the first. starting from Lokehang' northward, the second irom Hungehow northward, the third from Hungehow southward and the fourth from Chuchow west ward.
Meanwhile, he continued, a new workshop would be erected at Saichuen as soon as machinery which had been ordered abroad arrived. Construction of the Lokchang-'Taishekmen section would be com. pleted in a period of three months and the inauguration of the service on that section would probably take lace early in October.—Reuter.
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