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Show Lenine Government Grants Concession For Railway Line Financial Group, Headed by Edward Hannevig, May Build Road. 4yr-j HRISTIANIA, May 3. By the As- I tociated Press.) A concession I for constructing a railway CO'.'O miles long has been grauted "in principle" by the . Bolshe'. ik government govern-ment of L'ussia to a financial group headed by Eduard Hannevig, a Norwegian, Norwe-gian, says a Norwegian lawyer, M. Puntervold, who recently returned from Kussia. The proposed railway is to extend from the Obi river in the Tobolsk government, gov-ernment, via Kotlass to Petrograd, Murmansk Mur-mansk and Archangel. It is said to in-cludu in-cludu the right of utilizing 33,000 square miles of forest land through which the railway is to be constructed, mining rights along the railway and the opening of banks at the railway stations sta-tions and towns mar the line. According to 31. JPuutcrvold, the terms granted are far more favurable to capitalists than might have been expected ex-pected from the most '-onservativo government gov-ernment in Norway. The newspaper Ti Dens-Tcgn, commenting upon the concession, con-cession, says: "It is a, proof that Ee-uine's Ee-uine's government is finding it necessary neces-sary to create a new capitalism to encourage en-courage the economic lite of northern Kussia.t |