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...think, however that you misrepresented old Peter slightly. According to you he was somewhat of a ladies' man and a bit primitive, what's more. He was killed in an explosion on the Kettle Valley railway, as you mention. The employes who have been running that line for many years knew him well. When one mentions him to any of them a gleam of admiration will appear. "Ah, there was a gentleman and an aristocrat...
Last week Austrian Railway Director Seefehlner called Deputy Koenig into his office. Berthold Koenig is not only a Deputy but an important official in the Austrian railwaymen's union and a Socialist. There was an official excuse for the conference: a threatening railway strike over a pay cut. Director Seefehlner had a little suggestion to make...
...containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish a nice arms smuggling business to the benefit of the Austrian treasury, her railways and the railway employes. A pay cut might not be necessary...
Basic also are three recommendations which the Report asks the assembly to adopt: 1) "the Assembly recommends the evacuation of [Japanese] troops" who should withdraw into the only part of Manchuria in which they have treaty rights to be, namely, the narrow South Manchuria Railway Zone running down to Dairen & Port Arthur in Japan's Kwantung Leased Territory; 2) "the Assembly recommends the establishment in Manchuria ... of an organization under the sovereignty ... of China" but with "a wide measure of autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created...
Dissatisfaction with a state-owned transportation system was what launched the Pennsylvania R. R. 86 years ago. Stretching from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh (at the head of navigation on the Ohio River) was an extraordinary series of state-owned railways, canals and skidways over the Alleghenies, built to compete with New York's booming Erie Canal. Canal boats, constructed in sections, were trundled through the streets of Philadelphia on low-wheel trucks, hauled to a railway, then chuffed, towed, pushed and slid over the 395 mi. of "State Works" to Pittsburgh. In winter when canals froze, all transportation ceased...