Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-10-27 | Page 4 | Japanese Doctor Controls Railways

JAPANESE DOCTOR CONTROLS RAILWAYS Japan has a new minister of oC transportation transportation transportation tation Baron Goto who at tho the time lime of ot his appointment Was Gen general rU manager manager manager man man- ager of oC tho the South railroad that Is the thc part pall art of ot the railroad from Port Arthur northeastward northeastward which remains In Japanese Japanese- han hands s since the war He te was originally a a. physician and nd served as head of oC a hospital and In the general government go a as chief of oC the thA th sanitary sanitary sani sani- tary ury service After ALer the Russian war he was made chief of ot the tho civil administration of oC I tho the Island of ot Formosa Formo where ho he distinguished distin himself was nas ennobled and was given an charge o of the South Manchurian railroad This was originally built with the Russian foot five gauge As 8 fast as the Japanese got ot possession of or It during the war they changed It Il to the tho Japanese narrow gauge to lit Ut their rolling roiling stock but since the war the they have changed It again but not to the Russian Russian gauge which would permit the Sl Slber Siberian an railroad trains to run through to Port Arthur Ar- Ar thur hur as before the war wor but to the four four- our our- I foot Coot Inch Si-Inch gauge which Is that of the Chinese railroads I