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Show BALKAN It LINES aw i ii i i as Some Details of How New Road's Are' Built Austria-Hungary, While Not Rich In Capital, When Compared to Some Other Countries, Will Finance Largo Share of Work. Vienna. On the part of a high official of the Auatro-Hungartan bank, the great state Institution in this country, I received some details about the building of a number of new railroads rail-roads and the Improvement Of existing exist-ing ones in the Balkan countries, especially espe-cially so far as Autarla Hungary is involved. in-volved. Although the dual monarchy is not rich In capital, when compared to some other countries, she will yet undertake a considerable share of the work. This will last for five years and more, and the money to be Invested In-vested will altogether amount to not less than $600,000,000. This money will be taken up In the shape of loans, and the loans will be floated in Parts, Vienna, Herlln and London. All the Balkan countries, Including In-cluding Bulgaria and Albania, will ob tain such loans. Railroad construction will necessarily not begin until after; the various loans have been obtained. Albas V new roads the first that beV S lll have will connect with jJvJreece and Servla, one line tforo '"om Monastlr Durazzo, an-utLur an-utLur from Valona to Janlna. If the projected Danube-Adrift line Is really built by Austrian capital which Is doubtful, because ft wouldn't pay for fears to come there would be direct railroad connection between Vienna and Albania. The completion of the Trans-Balkan line, a Bulgarian work, and which la to go aa far as Dedea-tatcb Dedea-tatcb on the Aegean, and to connect with the Roumanian lines will give Bulgaria a perfect railroad system. 3rece, above all, requires much capital for railroads, notably In her sew territory. The Servian road enterprises en-terprises will all be capitalized by Prance. Greece will or the first time mnMt 1 if: ITntll' P' ';- . - "".-.; In Old Vienna. btaln railroad connection with the European network, both with Vienna ind with Paris. Several of these profited pro-fited lines will give Austrian and iungarlan export readier and more rarled acceas to the Aegean, the tdriatic, the Black and the Indian leas. , For some time the Auatro-Hun-tarlad government has been on the rack of unscrupulous emigration igents who have facilitated the egrees if persons who for some reason or l,er were not legally entitled to eave the country, such as young men ibout to serve in the army. Lately, nany hundreds of arrests were made. The evidence shows thst there has een all along a whole flourishing in-lustry, in-lustry, the chief centres being in Henna, Trieste, Flume, Leraberg, Pra-rue. Pra-rue. Cracow, Budapest, Grosswardeln ind some smaller placea. Government Govern-ment detectives ferreted out the sets, and they are certainly astound-ng astound-ng enough. The wholesale manufae-ure'of manufae-ure'of forged documents of all kinds, nabllng the holders to pass the tcrutlny of the government agents at be frontiers and in the harbor towns, teems to hsve been carried on by lotaries, lawyers, and In not a few aaea by municipal or provincial offi-:lals. offi-:lals. So far the worst cases that came tc the sufrace were ascertained In Vienna and Grosswardeln. |