Effort to Put Railway on Paying Basis Peiping, Jan. 22 The South Manchuria Railway will take over tha Peiping-Suiyuan R: ay Administration and manage the ne on behalf of the "Provisional government, it is reliably learned here to-day Mr. An Ta-ching, Managing actor of the line, addressed the staff the day before yesterday and assured hem that no changes would be made fter the railway had been taken over. It is, however, rally beeved that the aff will be reorganago, it is understood.
Japanese military authority re sounded by the "Provisional Governmen to their willingness to hand o ver all the Government Japanese-occupied terry fcr management by a special ay bureau to be created by the ut. The Japan thor i not reject this request of hand, but said. that, pending period of military operations, would administer these railway half of the Chinese.
Mr. Shimozu, Director of the Peiping office of the South Manchuria Railway, visited the Peiping-S Railway Administration on January and inspected the various depar ments. This evening he gave a dinner in honour of various Chinese and Japanese officials at the local office of the S.M.R. in the Tung Chang An Chiek.—Reuter.
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