Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — Chinese Advancement. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Advancement.

Forty years ago China’s first locomotive killed a man who was trespassing on the track. Promptly the people executed judgment on the little sevenmile road. The rails were torn up. The locomotive was sold. The road was no more. Now there are 6,000 miles of railroad In China; it is in prosperous condition and additions are being made to the mileage every_jear. Chinu will yet rival the foremost countries of Europe in the extent of. her railrQads and the profits from them. The new China gives promise of becoming a nation.