Again, the city, two years or loss ago, was an important railway centr People coming down from Kansu, Sin Kiang and the far northwest, coming up from Szechwien and, southwest China, passed through here, In that respect Peiping today is a dead fend; it 4s completely cut off, 'The Kalgan line Is open as tar as Potow, but all communication with the north west and Mongolia is completely' terrupted; the Hankow line is theorem Heally open as far the Yellow River, but travel on it even for that limited distance. is precarious and uncertain the same applies to the Tsin-Pu lin which only runs as far as Tsinanfu. Peiping is certainly mo longer the Great railway junction that it once was. The chief users of north China railways are the Japanese themselves, who continue to pour into the coun= try in the hope of maki tunes, a hope that has so far failed to come true, 40,135 Soldiers Taken In by Nanking Force Shanghai, Mar. 7, Incorporated into the militia of the Ministry of Public Security. of the Reformed Government, following their surrender to the new regime, were 40108 man in the three "pro: Yinees of Chekiang, lanes, Aninwei at the ondon Februn said, represented "but a fraction" of those who had made their submission to the Nanking authorit
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