. "The New York Herald" states that Japan has placed orders for equipment of the value of £20,000,000 for the South Manchurian railway. She has bought 20,000 tons of steel rails at the Carnegie works, paying 28.5 dollars per ton, and. 12,000 tons at 29 dollars. The high "price was paid in order to secure quick delivery.. Japan has also ordered 10,000 freight cars and trucks front one firm, and ias spent £400,000 on loco-
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 174, 23 July 1907, Page 3
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