Just before its transformation once more into a thoroughfare, Kiukiang Road suggests more than ever a scene during the War when armies were pinned down by trench lini There has been a trench there for an interminable time, but one never saw the brokers or the gold bar people ever attempting to take it by storm, so that there was little realism. But now a motor bogey, hauling other bogeys, is on the job, shifting the accumulated mud, and this just lends the necessary touch to bring back bully beef and high explosive to the old hand. Vor this motor bogey on low wheels, when seen through a Scotch mist. is quite like the style of thing that used to be seen bumping over the Deeauville railways, nor is the bé- haviour of the attendants conspicwously different. The thing is loaded and started, but before it has gone very far. has to be stopped because something is falling off. Such was the way of the Decauyille in days before it had to work to some sort of time table. Another remembrance is conjured up by the amount of digging that has been done here within recent months, and twisting a statement that really belongs to the Loyal North Lancs., and which has been veraciously handed down from the War, we might remark that in six days the Deity made heaven and earth and that the P.W.D. and the _pnblic utility companies have been digging the confounded thing up ever since. But wherefore worry about Kiukiang Road? Even at ordinary times when there are no trenches the general public hardly gets any use out of it because of the curbstone speculators.
Cane, Jan. 31.—Zaghlul Pasha and the other deportees ara being Uoported to the Seychelles Islands, which is their final destination.—Router.
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