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RAILWAYS

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CHINESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS.

TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE.

FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING-CAR ON THROUGH-EXPRESS OF TIENTSIN-PUKOW RAILWAY.

This line runs through Chihli, Shantung, Anhui and Kiangsu, the four most important and thickly populated provinces of the country, touching many commercial and industrial centres, coal-fields and places of historic and scenic interest. Among the last, the most significant are: Chufou, the birth and burial place of Confucius, with the former residences, relics and temples of the Great Sage and his disciples; Taishan, the first of the five sacred mountains in China, with its famous flight of steps and numerous tombs, monuments and temples; the Taminghu (lake) in Tsinanfu, the capital of Shantung; and the Szesui bridge at Yenchowfu, a bridge about 800 feet long and running over 15 culverts of stone, a relic of the Ming Dynasty.

It affords the quickest and most convenient rail connection between Shanghai, the great port of the East, on the one side of Tientsin, and Peking, Kalgan, Mukden and the Trans-Siberian route on the other.

Its trains are furnished with up-to-date equipments, thus ensuring all 'facilities and comforts of modern railroad travelling. The Through Express and the Mail Train, with dining cars attached, are run daily. First and Second Class sleeping accommodation are provided on the Express Trains.

For convenience of travellers the railway has at great expense put up first-class hotels fitted with every modern comfort at Tsinanfu, Taianfu and Chufou.

For further and detailed Particulars apply to Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son or the American Express Co. at any of their Agencies.

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