Nanking, July 4
The revised contract for the Yunnan Railway was approved by the Legislative Yuan at its regular session yesterday, The revision was based upon the newly concluded Sino-Annamese Commercial Conven-ion.
Reporting on the revised contract, Mr. Yang Kung-ta, a member of the Legislative "Yuan," pointed out that great improvements have been made in the revised version as compared with the old version, He mentioned, in particular, provisions concerning the fixation of Tand rights and land costs, payment of freight according to the customs gold unit, appropriation of funds by the Railway Company for the train ing of Chinese railway officers and engagement of Chinese advisors—Central News and three third class coaches Central News, Smugglers Defeat Own Ends Peiping, June 28.
The flow of smuggled goods to the south may be temporarily stopped, because of the difficulty of finding markets for them in such places a3 Tsinan and elsewhere, according to Chinese reports. Last night, when more than 100 bales of goods were being loaded on a southbound train, 4 telegram was received from Tsinan stating that, because of the heavy drop in the prices of smuggled goods and the dimeulty of selling them, any additional supply to Tsinan would in~ crease the loss of the merchants there. 'AS a result, no goods left Tientsin last night—Reuter,
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