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Extract from "The New York Times" Air Edition

6th September, 1950

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The monthly statement of the Kowloon-Canton Railway released here today disclosed that the tonnage carried over its route in August was the highest for any monthly period since the end of the Japanese war. The railway formerly operated a through service. Since the Communists took over, South China passenger trains have been operating from both ends only as far as the border, but freight trains sometimes make the through

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The railway statement said goods and tonnage carried in August amounted to 35,193 tons. It listed the principal items sent to China as iron bars, galvanized iron wire, galvanized iron sheets, steel plates, iron hoops, machinery parts, crude rubber, rubber tires, medical supplies, auto parts, chemicals and sugar. Goods that arrived by rail here it added, consisted mainly of wood oil, beans, tea, hemp, bran, some pigs and poultry.

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