Geneva, Mar. 5.
The members of the five-power committee appointed by the League Council on January 31 will arrive here to-morrow from Britain, France, Turkey, Sweden and Belgium in order to make certain alterations in the regulations for conducting elections in the Sanjak of Alexandrette. The decisions of the committee must be unanimous and the meeting must be attended by the president of the election commission—Trans-Ocean.
From Taiwan: Thinking it probable that most of your readers took a kindly interest in the little railway which had such a lamentably short existence in Shanghai, and that they will be anxious to know what has become of it, I seize one of the opportunities, which are to us poor exiles here like angels's visits, "few and far between," of communicating with the mainland, to send you these few lines. Alasi that I should' have such a sorrowful tale to tell! 'The railway has, it is true, been brought over here' to be stored, but how was it landed? Anyhow, I am told that anything that would float was thrown overboard from the Chinese steamships that brought it over, and towed ashore over the bar by catamarans. I myself have seen the of carriages and the frameworks—whether of carriages or engines I could not tell—deposited in the mud near the Anping Custom House jetty, and there left to be covered "with a foot or. two of salt water at every flood tide. Is it likely that carriages or engines could be put together again after that? I have seen iron plates and rails and other. parts of the plant being carried up the main street of the city in a condition of, rust that fits them simply for the old-iron shop. Such is the gloomy side of the picture, Its. redeeming int is the hope that, as the Chinese ye displayed sufficient ability and gy to put up a telegraph line, and work it, entirely by themselves, ' they may now try their hand at a railway.
the same time it is very doubtful, I should think, whether they could fit the component parts together again, after putting them through a course of mud and salt water; and the Governor is not rich enough to provide new materials,
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