The Archive · 1939

Pinghan Railway Bridge

Now Repaired Hankow, Apr. 26.

Affording a major strategic advantage to Japanese forces operating in areas north of the Yangtze, the Pol-ping-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 Wushengewen tunnel some time ago,' railway zaille on the 200-kilometre stretch {from Hankow to Changtalkwan was Jagain made possible, Since the reconstruction work began on the bridge, an aggregate of 20,121 Japanese offers and men, and 44,807 Chinese Inboured on the project—Domei.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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