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Show CifflHOiS TO CMFOR HIS Begins Tearing Up Sidings and Parallel Line of Railroad Rail-road in Northwest. OTTAWA, Ont., Doc. IS. Canada has begun to tear up 1UO0 miles of railway to meet the needs of the war on the western front in France and Belgium, it was learned tonight. The rails will be shipped to France, where they will ,be relaid to facilitate the movement of troops, sruns, munitions and supplies from French ports to the fighting line. Laborers now are at work tearing up 300 miles of government railway sidings, and it has been decided to remove re-move 220 miles of rails between Edmonton Ed-monton and the Pacific coast, where the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific run parallel. Traffic will be thrown upon one of these lines. It is expected that some of the rails to be sent to France will be obtained from the Trans-Continental railway and the Hudson Bay railway. It is stated that twenty miles of rails will load one steamer. One cargo already is on the way to the seaboard, it is said. In sending a call to Canada last week for rails, it was said, British government govern-ment authorities represented that prompt action would save thousands of lives. It was impossible to obtain new rails, owing to the great demand for steel to manufacture shells. An official offi-cial was sent to New York, where he conferred with Frank Cochrane, Canadian Ca-nadian minister of railways, who directed di-rected F. P. Gutelius, manager of the government railways, to do all possible. possi-ble. Mr. Guteiius thereupon set 300 men at work tearing up 300 miles of siding?. E. J. Cbamberlain, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific, railway, was recalled re-called from Washington to New York, it was said, and the decision to take up 200 miles of rail in western Canada was reached at a conference with A. H. Smith, president of the New York Central and president of a board of investigation in-vestigation of Canadian railways. Soldiers will be employed to tear up the rails when laborers cannot be employed, em-ployed, it was stated. |