Nanking, Feb, 28.
Musteating the rapid strides made in railway construction in China in Fecent years, the total length of China's ational railways at the end of the twenty-fourth year (1935) showed an Increase of 140513 kilometres over the figures for the twenty-third year, (1534),. according statistics issued by the Ministry of Railways to-day.
The same year saw an increase of $24,805,541, or 282 per cent, in the {otal of capital assets over those the previous year, and a 213. per cent. Increase in the total revenue.
Expenditures for the year, however, showed a 024 per cent, drop.
During the year under review, there was an Increase of 1,200,000 Passengers and 1,400,000 metric tons. of freight carried by the national railways as compared with the figures for" the previous" year—Cental World tin production for the year 1696 amounted to 171,888 tons, "the production totalled 140652 tons. largest volume since 1929. In 1935
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