The Japanese have made a new road from Taiwanfu to Tangkang. It was very necessary, and it is a great improvement, though now in the rainy season it is not of much use. In some places they warned the people a few days in advance that the was to pass though a certain place. That was all right. But for many tens of li the people knew nothing about where it was to be till some "morning a few hundred Japanese and Chinese coolies
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