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Show BECAUSE OF WINTRY WEATHER. Work on the Eestern Portion of the Si-berian Si-berian Railway Stopped. StTTTT"khburg, Nov. 18. Owing to the exceptional severity of the weather the government gov-ernment has given orders that the work on the eastern portion of the Siberian railway shall be suspended for the present. - As a measure of relief to many peasants in the famine stricken districts the government govern-ment is considering the advisability of engaging en-gaging a thousand of them to work on the construction of the Siberian road during the winter. The work of building the line will be resumed as soon as the weather moderates moder-ates sufficiently. . The czarowich will shortly undertake the supreme direction of the work of construction. |