Front Oun Own Comtsroxonsr Dairen, Feb. 10.
Every season finds the Japanese profiting by their experiences. in Manchoukuo. Working under conditions unlike those in Japan, some of their new experiences are devastating, ike some of their colonization projects, while others are like nightmares, such as the ease of a train being transformed into an ice mound, Due to frequent stalling of trains in North Manchoukuo an SER. inspector was despatched to investigate the causes, He returned "with the following report: "It is so cold up north that'steam engines won't funetion and if the trains stop they freeze Indeed, Mr. Yoshimura, the" spector, pointed out that the tempera ture in the Hsingan provinees is around 60 degrees below zero Con-grade, Even a moving train is completely coated with ice, but should '2 train halt the ice thickens so rapidly that it would be necessary to box it in before successful attempts can be made to thaw the ice. Unless the {ce is melted, he explained, workmen fare unable to get to parts of the engine needing oiling, reply and other attention, Antiquated locomotives of the NMR. (former CER.) recently inhherited by Manchoukuo, are in such condition that they breakdown con~ tinuously, "Mr, Yoshimura declared. They need fixing continuously, until with some engines, Mr. Yashimura said, the time required' for repair ing has become longer than the scheduled running time, Added to this is the handicap of trying to burn coal in an oven made for wood as fuel,
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