Hankow. Apr. 26.
Affording a major strategic advantlage to Japanese forces operating in areas north of the Yangtze, the Peiping-Hankow Railway bridge over the Shih River, south of Sinyang, near the southern border of Honan province, was completed yesterday after having been under repair since February 4.
With the reopening of the Wushengkwan tunnel some time ago, railway traffic on the 200-kilometre stretch from Hankow to Changtaikwan was again made possible.
Since the reconstruction work began on the bridge, an aggregate of 20,121 Japanese officers and men, and 44.867 Chinese laboured on the project! Domei.
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