Peiping, Feb, 23, Japanese technical ald, steel rails and rolling stock, representing Investment totalling $1,500,000, will be supplied for the construction of the Shihchiachwang-Tsangchow rally way, according 10 Chinese press reports, The Chinese authorities, the same reports assert, will be responsible for the supply of labour and ballast for the road bed. Negotiations are now proceeding between the Chinese and Japanese " authorities for the early. Construction of the railway, It will be remembered that some lime ago the name of the Shinchiachwang-Teangchow Railway, both the Chinese authorities being in favour Of the line extending to Tientsin instead of finishing at Tsangchow.
This plan, however, has now been changed because of the fact that the Food bed between Taangchow and Tentsin has not yet been levelled. Reuter.
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