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Show STRATEGIC RAILWAY8 Strategic railways seem to rank with armaments as a causo of International Inter-national suspicion. It bus been said thnt Germany was less alarmed by tho lncrenso of tho Russian army than by tho plans for now rnllwnys which would permit a moro rapid concentration of troops and war material. ma-terial. On tho other hand It Is urged urg-ed thnt premeditation In tho nttack upon llolglum Is shown by tho construction con-struction of strategic railways along tho Helglan border. This Is denied by tho Staats Zoltung of Now York, which says that tho railways In that region aro no moro than are needed lor tho great and growing commcrco between Holglum nnd Gormnny. Obviously Ob-viously tho densor tho population nnd tho greater tho t raffle, tho less Is the need for purely strategic railways, or to invert tho statement, tho greater great-er Is tho possibility of making strategic strat-egic railways pay. This wholo region reg-ion has great possibilities for railroad rail-road development, being nn outlet for tho commorco of much of Gormduy ns well as of Hclghim; tho .suspicions which liavo for yoars past boon aroused arous-ed or designed for tho uso of an or-building or-building of rallwayH as to tho construction con-struction of sidings and olaborato platforms at places whero no commercial com-mercial need nppcarod, but whoro thoy would bo vory usoful for tho handling of munitions of war. |