Hulutao

— If the scheme is carried out, the Chinese will have two trunk lines running in a generally north-south direction to the east and to the west of the north-south South Manchuria Railway, cutting the Chinese Eastern at two or more points, thereby tapping the wealth of both the Russian and Japanese spheres in Manchuria, and diverting traffic from Vladivostok and Dairen to the port of Hulutao on the Gulf of Liaotung opposite Yingkow. A contract for the development of this port was let to a Dutch company in 1930, the payments to be made from the income of the Peking-Mukden lines.