Hungtung, Jan, 20, To the resident reluming after absence of twelve months or mor: some distinct changes are noticeable in.a province which more than others has. been free from" rapid. change. Among these new features the Tung-Pu Railway must take frst place, As name indicates it is to run even tually from Tatung in the extreme north of the province to Puchow in the south, Southward the lino has been open for some time as far the Yellow River where a convenient connection with the Lung-Hal line can be made at Tungkwan, but northward sti falls short of Tatung by quite some distance. South of Taiyuan a branch line has been completed from Pingpao to Fenyang, and a second me to Changehih (Luan) in the east of the province is now being surveyed.
On Janunty.t the schedule for passenger trains was revised, and the rains speeded up for the s¢eond time singe the. line was opened eighteen months ago, though it still take twelve hours to do ttle more than 150 mites from Linfen to Taiyuan. A regular passenger train runs dally in each direction, and the time-table adhered to fairly closely. 'The new third-class carriages of which these fvalns. are composed are' well, built and. tun smoothly; they are Jit by lectrielty and heated by stoves. contrast the mixed goods trains which algo Tun once a day sult carry their passengers in adapted cattle trucks. which Jolt along at the end of the The me is well patronized and ought to show a good return on the capitol outlay. First and second-class eatrlages. are promised shortly, but fat present there Isa great shortage of trucks, Bales of cotton are piled, Up. at Hungtung ike miniature Teebergs waiting in vain for the summer sun {0 mel tern slacks of coat fare held "uj indefinitely in the Ling~ shih district, al tons of broken stone ear "Hwohslen are' needing to be Scattered over the many miles of track stil unmetalled, 'The hallway trains, having coated' to be a nine days "wonder, local youngsters, now rush out instead to watch the military foreplanes which occasionally pass this way following the course of the Fen River.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.