The "Hsin Skun Pao" has the follows item of new:
"The section of the Shanghai-Ningpo-Hangchow: railway between Ningpo and Shaohsing has not been connected because of the lack of a bridge over the Tsaowo n The Superintendent of the Railway, realizing that traffic is being hindered and business crippled on this account, has applied to the Board of Conimunications for permission to complete this section of the line. At present 2 ferry over the Tsaowo river serves to make connexion between the two ends of the line, but it is desirable that the line should be joined up at an early date. For this reason engineers have been sent to make surveys and make plans for a bridge as is shown by the records.
Now, the contract to construct a bridge over this river was originally given to Mr. Muller (1), the manager of the German firm of J. Diederichsen & Ca., and it was stipulated that the work should be completed and trains running over the bridge by the first month of the fifth year of the Republic. Because of the European War the
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