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Show Back to Primitive Age Chinese railways, and consequently the farmers, are always the first to suffer when civil war breaks out. The first task for the military chieftain chief-tain is to seize as much rolling stock as he can for the transportation of his troops. This means that most civil wars are fought along the railroads rail-roads and passenger and freight traffic is paralyzed. The extent of this can be Imagined. . No- trains have operated along the Lunhal line for weeks except troop trains. Farmers turn to the peculiarly constructed con-structed wheelbarrows to haul their produce Into town, coming for mites over the trails. Thirty miles outside the city is a quarry noted for Its building sand. For days streams of coolies have been hauling this sand on wheelbarrows along the railroad tracks. Distance, 30 miles. Washington Wash-ington Star. |