New Service from Shanghai to Taitsang: First.fruits of the Good Roads A new step in Chinese communications were introduce} on Sunday when the first "bus of the Shanghai-Taitsang Motor Service Ca., Ld., started on its first journey from New Kung-ho Road, Chapei, to an intermediate station called Tazang, 18 [i (six miles) from Shanghai.
The trips were more or less, trials for the new service which will later extend to a suburb of Taitsang called Liuwu, a distance of about 727i (24 miles) from Shanghai.
Work on the road between Shanghai and Liuhu has been finished but there are still several bridges in course of construction which need to be completed before the through service starts. This road, which is being built by the Paoshan District authorities and rented to the Shanghai Taitsang Service Ca., is about 30 ft. wide. Tt is estimated that the cost will not be less than $300,000, which sum has been paid by the Company as a franchise fee. There are about 40 bridges altogether and nine stations, namely, Shanghai (Chapei), Panpoo, Ta-yang, Tongchao, Liuhong, Lootien, Pankiachac, Zauchinchao and Lin-
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