Designed to tap the rich coat elds Jot Tatung and the iron mines of Suanhua in North China, a. special rail line may be built from Tangku westward if plans of the Japanese Railway Ministry and the North China Railway Company materialize This railway" would speed up. the {transportation of coal and iron ore to [Japan proper, Extending from Tangku to Suanhus Jsouth of Kalgan in Chahar province, the projected railway would—be almost parallel tothe existing Peiping-Mukden "and Peiping-[Suiyuan lines, It construction is undertaken this' year, the line may be completed by the end of 1940, engineers herd said.
'The tine, if completed, would form link in a' proposed "anti-Comintern"™ Tokyo-to-Bertin railway of a" total length of 15,000 Kilometres. The distance from Tangku to Tatung is 570 kilometers, The 'Tokyo-Berlin route, jas envisaged by the Japanese Ministry fof Railways, would extend from Japan, {to Korea, thence to North China, to the Pamir Plateau, to. Kabul,' in [Afghanistan and to Baghdad.
This would be virtually the route followed in the opposite direction by [Marco Polo when he visited China-—
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