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SWATOW.

[From Our Own CórmespondeNT.]

April 17th.

THE ALHIVAL OF GENERAL WOO.

INTERESTING FORECLOSURE-

ACTION AT SHANGHAL

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH. 192.

An interesting action has recently been tried by Sir Havilland de Sausmaurez, Judge of the Supreme Court of Shanghai, the plaintiffs being the China Mutual Life

LAMA AND TIBET.

The following telegrams are extracted from Indian papers,

KALIMPONG, March 16th. The Dalai Lama's departure for Lhaan seeme indefinitely delayed and feeling

WORK ON THE PANAMA CANAL.

APPROACHING COMPLETION":

serves to protect will be about 75ft., and a vessel on striking the chain will cause it to pay out against a liquid resistance, an arrangement of hydraulic cylinders being designed by which a retarding force up to 100 tons will be exerted. It is estimated that by this means a 10,000-ton vessel moving at four kuats, or a 30,000- rest within 70ft.

Insurance Co., Ltd., and the defendant Mr of despondency among his party is notice says the Times, although the official ton vossel at two knota, can be brought to

able.

The time for the completion of the Panama Canal is now within measurable distance, and it is anticipated that the first vessels will pass through early in 1914, estimate for finishing the whole of the work remaining to be accomplished is somewhat less.

As far as possible the construction of the Canal has been so ar- ranged that the work shall progress evenly throughout and various portions be com- pleted at about the same date, and mat ters have been kept so well in hand that it now seeme practically certain that the Culebra Cut and the Miraflores, Pedro

enormous lock gates, and a large propor

Good progress has been made with the tion of the material for these has arrived at the Canal site. Two of the gates were erected in the shops of the builders before being despatched; for the erection, on the spot a bridge is built acrom the lock traversed by locomotive crane, which enables the gates to be built up in place

The long-expected General Woo has at last arrived, but Lim is still here with Henry O'Shea. The action arose out of most of his soldiers, so it would be pre-a loan made by the plaintiffs to defen mature to say that Swatow's troubles are dant, who, among other securities, deposit all over, though it seems reasonable to ed with the plaintiffs one original believe that the situation now shows a founder's share in the Electric Construc gleam of hope, and that a final settlementtion Co. (face value £1,000), together of the faction-struggles is within the with a blank transfer form. In the month seems to have taken Swatow's trouble transaction which is the origin of this case, careful not to embroil themselves in any figuel, and Gatun Locks will all be finish with comparative ease. All bounds of possibility. Canton certainly of August, 1907, a year before the loan. the Shanghai Electric Construction Co., by seriously at last, and to have done its best special resolution, sub-divided each share to put down the disorders here, for Woo of the original capital of the company into has brought with him fully 3,000 troops,

100 shares of £10 each. The defendant seems to have attached great value to his and the Konghoi is staying here:

particular share and so much so that at Woo's men came in two detschmanta; the time of the loan he appears to have first, lost Tuesday afternoon, the Krong impressed upon Mr. Wattie, the nianaging director of the plaintiff company, his hi came in, escorting a China Merchants desire to have the actual paper represent boat, each of them packed with troops.ing his share-the share certificate itself They would seem to have anticipated-handed back to him at the time that hey got that sum, instead of leaving, as

resistance to their landing, for the entrance was made very cautiously and the gunboat covered the merchant steamer all the way up the harbour. No attempt was made to land the men that night the two beats remained in mid-stream

until Wednesday morning, when the China Merchants boat came alongside and discharged hor passengers. It looks za though- Woo, none too sure of his reception, wanted to get all his men within call before doing anything that might lead to hostilities, for almost immediately after the China Merchants -boat had eome

the wharf, the Telemachus came in, flying the Red Ensign, with another 1000 odd soldiers on board. She, too, get in quite peace fully and safely, and by Thursday both she and the other boat had landed sil their troops and left.

to

1911, in the course of the ordinary audit should redeem it. In the month of April, of the accunts of the company, the auditor found amongst the securities these papers, and he said, that he thought the company ought to have these shares transferred into their own name, In consequence of this, ng a matter of business and accepting the directions of the auditor, they proceeded

The three officers of his chair party returned to Tibet to-day. This is signi. ficant.

I hear that a body of 500 Khamba war- riors, whose general is here with the Lama, asked permission to come down here in order to escort the Lama back to Lhasa They were, however, ordered to stand fast for the time, and to be very fresh trouble with the Chinese. latter have received a large sum of money lately, 100 mule loads of silver. It is alleged that this is the money which should have arrived for them months ago, but was delayed in transit owing to the outbreak of the revolution in China. One wonders if they will now repay the Tibetans the lakh of mpees they bar rowed in order to pay the expenses of their return journey to China. After they promised, they remained on.

A CURIOUS RUMOUR.

The ed within a month or two of each other, have been completed with rarements to the about the middle of 1913, while work on electric towing plant, and practically all the material for the rack railway is now the Gatun dan will come to an end some-

on order. what earlier.

The Telegraph states that a Peking mission is going to Lhasse to seek the Dalai Lama's co-operation in dealing with Mongolia.

LEN AMBAN'S NUSE.

KALIMPONO, March 19th.

The Dalai Lama is holding another grand levee to-day. It is now almost certain that he will not leave here before May, if even then. He is again anxious as to the turn Chinese affairs have taken in Lhassa.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORK.

In order to provide an efficient organiza- tion without any overlapping of duties, work on the Canal is divided into three distinct and practically independent sec. tious, each with its staff and under the control of a chief engineer, who is respon sible to the chairman of the Commission. The sections are known respectively as the Atlantic, Central, and Pacifle Divisions. The first extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gatun Looks, the work including ther with the building of the locks and the excavation between these points, toge dams and other auxiliary operations. In the Central Division is comprised all the excavation and preparation between the Gatun Locks and the Pedro Miguel Locks

-a distance of well over 30 miles--and in this division comes the Culebra Cut, per- haps the most troublesome portion of the whole Canal. The work in the Pacific Division is the construction of the Pedro, who resigned his office in favour of the excavation between Miraflores and It is rumoured here that Len Amban, Miguel, and Miraflores Locks and dams, General Chung three months ago, has the Pacific, and also between the two resumed his duties. Chung's intention to come down here, but the Caribbean Sea on the Atlantic side It was General locks. It will be remembered that from ya ruse Len Araban put him off. Len to the Gatun Locke, a distance four or had some Chinese soldiers disguised as Tibetans.

five miles, the canal is to be at sea level, Chung and his fellow-officers that they 85ft. above the sea, this lovel being main They were instructed to tell and at these locks the water is raised to had just come from Darjeeling. There tained so far as the Fedro Miguel lock, at they had heard that the British Govern the inland entrance to the Miraflores ment had detained Mr. Pao

(late Lake, where it drops 30ft., bringing it Machifu (late Superintendent of Gyangtse Pacific end of the Miraflores Lake, which Assistant Amban at Lhassa) and Mr. down to 55ft. above the sea. At the Mart) from proceeding to China This is quite small, is the Miraflores Lock, information, as we know, was misleading. where the water is brought down to sea Another tale they spread was that the level, the distance from this lock to the

which by this time they had filled in their to send this share and the blank transfer,

own name, to the Electric Construction Co. for the purpose of having the share transferred into their own name. The Electric Construction Co. thereupon sub- divided this share of £2,000 into 100 shares of £10 each. No notice whatever was given either by the plaintiffs or by the Electric Construction Co. to the defendant that they were so dealing with his share until the month of July, when the share had already been converted apparently struction Co. wrote to the defendant ask- into other shares, when the Electric Con ing him whether the matter was in order. The defendant did not think that it was at all in order, and he, from that time, General Woo is no new man to the dis to and required to have his original share took up the attitude that he was entitled trict, nor is he one of the inexperienced given back to him. Towards the end of hotheads (like Messrs. Gue and Lim) who the year the loan was in process of being so often manage to get high places in called in. There was no demand at that British Government gave active support asa being only a few miles.

time, but negotiations were in progress for its being paid off. There was one in- ermountable difficulty, namely, that the share which the defendant wanted and the plaintiffs could

give back

the defendant was not going to pay until they did. The result was that the defendant eventually made tender by cheque, of surm which represented his debt at that tine, on condition that they gave him back that security. It was quite obvious, of course, that he could not get it, but still the question as to whether he was entitled to get it would make bis tender either

present state of China. He is a man well., over 80, and was for many years an official under the Manchu Government, being for some time, too, Brigadier General in command at. Chaochow, so there is reason to hope that if he can get rid of Lim and gain undivided authority here (but that is rather a big if the internecine struggles that have been the curse of Swatow for the last five months will be at an ond..

THE SITUATION IN SWATOW.

not

good or bad The plaintiffs commenced

in Tibet.

TITLED TOURISTS.

A FAMOUS YACHT IN THE EAST.

LOCKE AND DAMS.

SHOULD SOLDIERS MARRY.

BURNING QUESTION IN CLUB AND BARRACKS.

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An article in the Pall Mall Gazette re- cently dealing with the question of the difficulty that the rank and file perience in getting married "on the has excited the greatest interest, our con- strength" while serving with the colours temporary says, throughout the Army, and has been the subject of much discussion, as much in the barrack room clubs and the messça.

As in the

While officers seem to be agreed, for the most part, that it is not desirable that the percentage of men granted permission to marry should be increased, the men hold that any soldier who can show a valid. posed wife is of respectable parentage and reason for desiring to marry, that his pro- upbringing, and he can produce a good should be added to the married roll as a character to his commanding officer,

matter of course.

Every year the number of men who twelve or twenty-one years is growing loss decide to re-enlist for the full period of

and less, and in a large measure this in due to the fact that they are glad to go on to the reserve at the earliest possible mo ment in order to marry.

It would not cost a very great deal to

sent figure of 3-per-cant to at least 10 innrense the percentage of men allowed to marry "on the strength" from its pre-

INTIMATIONS

3 CHILDREN HAD

ECZEMA ON FACES

Bagan in Red Places, Spread Rapidly. Brokeand Made RawSores. Speed- lly Cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Have Had No Retum.

My three children had an outbreak of sones on their faces. It began with tho aldeat; thirteen years old. Aftor using a sample tim of Cu Moura Dintment for him, by gently apply. ing every night and morning and bathing in warm water. I found the scabby sorca began to dry up and fall away, and before I had finished the sample he was completely cured. Then I found my other two children, Arthur, twelve years old, and Bybll, nine, had a breaking out on their face. It began with a red place and tbcu in a few days it broke out to a lot of tile mastory places about as large as pin heads which burst out into raw BOTES. A halghbour told me it was eeroms that the children had. It began to spread rapidly. I tried several ointments but they only seemed to make it worse. As their cases seemed more obstinate I got a tables of Cuticure Soap as well as a tin of Gutleurs Olaiment and at the end of three wecka all their faces were per fectly clear and smooth, and they have had no return of the complaint sinco.

!'Just after this, Sybil fell and broke the skin of her kico by falling on some rough. gritty stones. I think she would have had a vory bad knee but I persevered with Chatteurs Bosp and Cuticurs Ointment which drew all the discharge and dirt out. I have recom- · mended Cullera Soap and Ointment to set- eral of my friends and shall always keep tham by me, for they completely cured my three children of eeRČIUS.” (Signed) Mre. R. Ed wards, 2, Woodview Cottage, Heywood, West- bury, Wis., Eng., Aug. 11, 1811..

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87-12

Chs. J. Gaupp

& Co.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

CHATER ROAD,

The great stumbling block. in the way of the marriage of soldiers being put npon a proper footing is the cost that would be entailed. Foolish notions of economy cause the authorities to consider that in the event of a war, the larger the WATCHMAKERS, number of married men fighting in the ranks the greater would be the amount required for separation and other allow- antes, for wounds, pensiers, and for gratuities in the event of a man being killed in action, or dying of his wounds.

This, however, is logic, only worthy of the War Office, says the Pall Mall Gazette.

THE BURIAL-PLACE OF SIN STAMFORD RAFFLES

to the Chinese. This news resulted in

per cent.. and such a concession would- General Chung changing his plans, and

cause the greatest satisfaction through- The Gatun Locks, which are in two side-out the Service, and would probably prove so he would not come here for the pre-by-side sets and comprise three flights a great stimulant to recruiting. sent. troops arriving in Lhasa is now dis-the excavation has been finished, and his wife and family need to be increased.

The rumour about 2,000 fresh Chinese with a forebay, are intended to be com- At the same time, the allowances grant- All ed to the married soldier in respect to plate in every detail by June, 1913. credited It would not be surprising, however, if a detachment from the Kansu about three-quarters of the masonry for army now approaching Peking appeared the floors, sides and centre walls has been laid and it may be mentioned that the total amount required is well over 2,000,000 cubic yards, the cost of which works out at approximately 288 per cubic yard. All the material for the masonry, this action fer foreclosure on the equitable

except the cement, is, of course, obtained on the spot, and by means of efficient After he had safely arrived here, Woo's mortgage-real property in Shanghai, and the defence is one of tender, and a coun- first act was to issue the orthodox Pro-

With three British peers aboard and low the cost is kept comparatively rate of wages terclaim was also raised in which the de- two peeresses, the yacht Semiramis, drop-prevailing. Very little concrete remains clamation, telling the people not to be fendant claims specific performance of anped anchor in Manila harbour shortly to be laid at the Pedro Miguel Lock, and alarmed--he was here only to restore agreement to return to him this share after ten o'clock on the morning of April this portion of the work may be consider. which he had deposited with the plaintiffs. 3rd, six days out from Macassar, the chief cd as practically complete, the cranes hav order and good government (the Hanoverian lady's remark "We come for Havilland Sausmaurez in delivering judg-

Under these circumstances, said Sir town of the Celebes,

ing been moved during last year and put all your goots" might well sum up the ment, the one question in this case is whe-of the Marquis of Anglesey, has been Here about three-quarters of the masonry The Semiramis, which is the property together again at the Miraflores Lock, real effect of all these Proclamations), so ther when the defendant tendered a suffi chartered by Mrs. W. B. Leeds, one of work still has to be done, but as there they must all go about their business cient sum in satisfaction of his debt he was the most popular American hostesses of are now eight cranes concentrated on the quietly and not be alarmed, and so on. Lim had also, some days before, put out he had deposited by way of security or guests aboard the Semiramis for a tour

entitled to demand the actual serip which London. She has invited a party of five operations no delay will he occasioned... a Proclamation threatening instant death at least share certificates in his own name of the world.

The construction of the huge dam at to any of his men found-looting, forcibly which represented that original scrip.

Gatun is making extremely good progress, buying or selling goods, indulging in There is no authority in the cases cited of Manchester, The Duchess was Miss now remaining to be added. The figures In the party are the Duke and Duchess only a little over one-tenth of the material license, burning houses, etc,, but neither at the bar for the proposition that the Helena Zimmerman, of these documents has had much effect, deposit by way of security or pledge of a Eugene Zimmerman, a railroad magnate puted that during last year nearly daughter of for this work are enormous, and it is com- The looting by Lim's men was not stop-share certificate with a blank transfer of Ohio. Other guests are Lord Falconer, 6,000,000 cubic yards of material were pat ped by the terrible threats, nor have I attached gives the creditor s right with Lord Lascelles and Lady Sarah Wilson. heard of any looters being shot lately out notice to the depositor, to fill up the

towards the formation of the dam. As Neither are the merchants reassured by transfer with his own name and have Duke of Manchester, was, says the Manila Miguel and Miraflores, but little work Every member of the party, save the regards the less important dams at Pedro Woo's Ane words, and immediately he fresh certificates issued to him in his own Times, in good health and spirits when was carried out on the former last year started to land his men, all the shops name. At most the creditor is entitled to they landed in Manila despite two days pending the alteration of the drainage closed and have not yet re-opened. There do this for the purpose of giving effect of heavy weather on the trip from the rangements, but the latter is practically is still very severe tension, as inevit to the contract in his own favour. able when you have 4.500 soldiers of two this case the contract is contained in the Celebes. The Duke was suffering from a complete, about three-quarters of a mil opposing factions in the same town, but document of August 11th, in which power slight attack of malaria.

lion cubic yards of material having been -though it is always rush to prophesy is given to the plaintiffs to make sale thence making the railroad to Camp One ass in the case of the Gatun dam, a large The party intended to motor to Malolos added during the last 12 months, of which, in China-the balance of probability and absolutely dispose of the said pro and motors to Baguio. At the mountain proportion was hydraulic filling. would seen to show that Lim will not party in such manner as it may think capital they expect to stop s fight in the end.

week. most-advisable without any reference to Meanwhile the Semiramis will coal in When Woo arrived, it was quite un

There is no doubt that the work which certain what attitude the Hakkas would- or consent on my part." The plaintiffs Manila and the party will join the has given rise to the greatest anxiety is

were not thinking of selling and merely assume against him, so every preparation did what they did in order to complete vessel at San Fernando to resume the trip the excavation, particularly in that part was made for protecting foreigners and their security, an unnecessary act, as by

of the Canal known as the Culebra Cut, escorting them to places of safety. the memorandum of association the shares. The Duke of Manchester is perhaps the where the frequent and, apparently, un- H.M.S. Janui came over to the Swatow in the Electric Construction Co. can..by most widely known man of the party. preventible slides have caused a great These slides, however, and his art gallery is among the famous have frequent, His estates in England cover many acs deal of trouble. one of Butterfield & Swire's pontoons faving the transfer at the office of the ones of Great Britain. His marriage to seems probable that no mere very serious there is not a vestige of real evidence, 1 guards, too, were landed and stationed company accompanied by the certificate Miss Zimmerman in 1900 attracted world slips will occur at all. Between 10 and the circumstances it is permissible to hope

of the shared to be transferred. It was

to Yokohama.

wide attention.

THE CULEBRA CUT.

AND JEWELLERS,

OPTICIANS,

FINEST QUALITY

DIAMOND JEWELLERY

A SPECIALITY,

AND BWISE

GOLD AND SILVER

WATCHES.

The Times publishes the following Lodge, Wimbledon Park-road, S.W.ENGLISH, AMERICAN letter from Mr. Arnold Wright, Holly

In your issue of Friday, March 1st, ap- peared an advertisement signed by the solicitor of the vicar and churchwardens of St. Mary's Church, Hendon, intimating of deceased persons interred within that that all persons interested in the remains portion of the churchyard adjacent to the aouth side of the church proposed to be covered by the enlargement of the church should apply to the Judge of the Consis CLOCKS tory Court for directions with regard to be permitted to draw attention in your the re-interment of such reniains. May I

columns to the fact that the nation is very much interested in the remains of one who is buried in this part of Hendon church- yard! I refer to Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. Strangely enough, although Itafles died less than a century ago, the exact position of his grave is unknown. Tradition points to a spot close to the third window in the south front of

not required, and the next day they. As they had no right to deal as they did father's estate comprises about 29,700 slides, but it is satisfactory to note that and that if it should be necessary to re.

returned to their ships, and the Jass with the shares in this case, and cannot went back to the Kakchich side.

return the defendant his deposit, de, shares in his own name, the defendant's tonder was good and he is entitled to judgment on the claim with costs.

RELATIONS BETWEEN WOO AND 'LIM.

acres.

war she was taken prisoner by the Boers at Malcking in 1899 and later, exchanged for a Boer prisoner.

The Semiramis is commanded by Capt.

move the remains they shall be given fit

day what the comtry owes to the memory. ting re-interment and a monument raised above them to remind the Britisher of to- of this great Empire builder. It is true, As Sir Frank Swettenham says in his well- known work on British Malaya, that and had he been buried in the country he Raffles' best epitaph is written in Malay.

find his grave.' Nevertheless, it would loved so well we should know where to ha a seandal if failing any special inter- vention his dust were transferred from one nameless grave to another probably re- mote from the original place of burial."

... close to the Custom Kan Internationał

believe, to support the presumption. at the German and Japanese Consulates, also an act they cannot justify, as it put

17 million cubic yards of material were the Taiwan Bank, and the Custom House,it out of their power to return the defenson of the ifth Earl of Harewood. Hissome 5,000,000 cubic yards were due to all the question of the fasule of the graves Lord Lascelles is a Viscount, the eldest excavated in the Cut last year, of which that an effort will be made during the forthcoming operations to settle once for but fortunately their active services were dant what he was entitled to demand.

all the extra work thus entailed will not Lord Arthur George Keith-Falconer is add to the expenditure on this part of the part of Kintore. He has served in the cubic yard has been reduced below the 33 years old, the son and heir of the teath work, since the cost of excavation per Lim has so far shown no sign of giving

the South figure originally estimated, and is about British army and was in in to Woo, but at the same time he has

African campaign from 1900 to 1902. .: 3s. per cubic yard, including all charges. done nothing indicating a bellicose inten- The defendant in his counterclaim Lady Barah Wilson is a daughter of The Culebra Cat is now more than four- tion. He has, indeed, sent away 800 of alleges an agreement which he says was the seventh Duke of Marlborough She is fifths complete and should be quite ready Chang's troops who came down from entered into on August 11th to deliver

on the Atlantic and Pacific sections of the Chapchow, and who might have been up the title deeds and scrip and he claims the wife of Lient.-Colonel Gordon Chesney within 12 or 14 months. The excavation

Wilson of the Royal Horse Guards. She useful to him if he were really bent on specific performance of this agreement. war, but he still has 1.500 men with him Nothing turns on any of the title deeds achieved fame during the Boer wat as a Canale between the Gatun Locks and the Pacific-is in about the same state: here, and so long as that is the case, the ar scrip oxcept this share certificate in special newspaper correspondent. In that the Atlantic, and the Miraflores Locks and position is fraught with grave possibili-the Electric Construction Co. The alleged

Altogether during last year well over 30 ties: Negotiations between Woo and Lim condition does not appear in the agree

million cubic yards of material were ex- are, however, going on, and most likely ment, and I suppose the defendant means,

little in excess of this figure. cavated, and the amount remaining is but, all that Jim is doing is mere bluffing to though he does not so plead, that that get a higher price for his departure-it sondition is implied. Looking at the is said that he wants $80,000 before he acts of the case, that the subdivision of will disband his forces. If he should the shares of the company took place in decide to fight, it is to be feared that it August, 1907, in accordance with the THE RICE SEASON IN SLAM. will not be over as quickly as was his Articles-of-Association, that the plaintiffs struggle with Mr. Chen: Woo's Cantonese sent in the defendant's share and that its The Bangkok Times of the 97th ult. may not be as good fighters as Lim's exchange was effected, so far as the says:-The loading season for rice is Hakkas, but they are in a vast majority, plaintiffs are concerned, in the ordinary nearly over, and old hands cannot remem- and have, anyhow, the moral influence of course of business, that the original share ber a season which looks like closing so the Kwonghot's guns to encourage them. is not represented by other shares issued early. There are very few boats calling When Lim engaged with Chen, his men in accordance with the Articles, I do not for European cargoes next month, and were fighting to obtain their booty, but think that an order for specific perform-this is in striking contrast to previous now they have already got it. But if the ance should be made. If the defendant years when up to May and even in Jane unexpected happens, and there is fighting, has suffered by getting one hundred ten there have been big vessels loading. it is to be hoped that Woo will gain the pound shares instead of one £1,000 share, It will be interesting-to-see the figures day, for he is definitely appointed here his damages can easily be assessed, and of exports when published. It is an open by Canton, so a pronounced victory for. I therefore award him damages, but I secret that the export has very much him, might, by establishing his position, shall make no order as to the costs of decreased, and it is now generally ad put an end to all the faction rivalries the counterclaim till I know what the mitted that the crop has not been a good and freebooting expeditions.

damages are.

E. H. Chessor.

ane.

OPERATION.

Most of the details in connexion with the operation of the Canal have been worked out, and these are in many cases of great interest, inasmuch as they have to a large extent to be of original design owing to the nature of the undertaking. The provision of fender chains or similar devices to retard the motion of vessels in the docks and bring them to rest before reaching the gates was, of course, essen tial; the arrangement which it is proposed to adopt throughont, subject to satisfac

-inch chain which in the ordinary way tory tests of the first design, is to have will lie on the bottom of the lock, but whicb, when in operation, will be raised by hydraulic power evenly from both sides

HIGHEST TUNNEL IN EUROPE.

The tunnel continuing the Jungfrau Railway from the Eismeer Station to the Jungrau Jooh (Saddle), which is 11,400 feet above sea-level. was pierced at a quarter to six on the morning of February 21st. The tunnel emerges at the Jungfrau Joch amid glaciers, about 2,000 feet below the summit of the moun- tain (13,659 feet). The building of the

it is expected to reach the summit of the away was began sixteen years ago, and Jungfran in about three years.

The Jungfrau Railway is the third highest in the world, and the tunnel which of the lock. The minimum distance be- has just been finished is six and a half tween any chain and a lock gate which it miles long.

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