The Archive · 1901

New Roads on the French Side

vith July.

Ir is not everybody who knows where the Yates Road is, and there will be fewer still who will be able to guess what the connection is between the Yates Road and the new extension of the Quai de France. As a matter of fact there is_no connection, if we use that word in the sense of roadway, though in another sense the connection between the honoured missionary who for so many years made his home in the French Concession and the well-known lady atter whom the Yates Road gets its name is intimate enough. Our object in referring to the Yates Road is simple. We wish our readers to go up.it—first turning on the left after {passing the Carter Road—and stroll along with us across country into the French Concession. The very idea of going that way to St Josephs, for example, will strike most people as entirely strange. That 1s because they have not kept pace with new developments.

Now here we are, after five minutes' walk, entirely out of sight and sound of every foreign thing. That village behind us shuts out

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