The improvement of Legation Street will begin as soon as the frost is out of the ground (barring revolutions and euch like uncanny events). Bricks and yellow earth are being dumped wholesale atong the South wall of the city from the Chienmén to the Hata-men, a distance of one mile. Hu Yi fen is also in charge of this improvement. He says one mile of good m: cadamised road in Peking will be a valuable object lesson for the Manchus.
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