Beginning with this month the progressive Hang-Kiang. Railway—insti-[tuted sleeping cars, first, second and third class, in the schedule of trains. Passengers speak very highly of the innovation. Tt is amazing to think that one can take a sleeping berth on the outgoing train in the evening, and awake in "The Gem City" in the province of Kiangse, in time for breakfast the next morning. The line fs being extended through the Shangrao county and will eventual ly find. ite terminus at Nanchang With the opening up of the country] by rail and motor, the government Rave made marked progress stemming the tide of "lawlessness, and the power of the "Reds" hae, at last, been curbed.
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