have given orders that a wide road shall be built round the West Lake. More than half of this has been completed. Unfortunately, again, funds are lacking, and we have only been able to construct the road round the lake to Lin Yin Temple and San Tien Tsu Temple. I hope that we shall b> able to finish it by Summer. Al ready three bridges have been constructed."
The funds, said General Lu, would come from the Ministry of Communications, the Provincial Assembly and from the temples which will benefit by the building of the roads. The latter will pay their shares in instalments over periods of three years so that they will not feel undue strain. Work will be continued as the money is received. "If there is still not enough, then lotteries will be arranged and the funds from these should go far towards making ends meet. Already $200,000 has been spent. Anyhow," concluded General Lu, significantly, "we intend to have those roads and we are going to get them. While I am in charge of this province I am going to work and try to have my plans are carried out."
Who is responsible for the progress of Canton? Who is the cause of the development of better and more honest government there than is to be found elsewhere in China? Who is at the back of the thing?
These questions and others of a similar tenour have been repeatedly asked by those who have begun to appreciate the great difference between the Constitutionalist Government in Canton and that of China at Peking. The answer cannot be given in the name of any one man. It is not a one-man movement. The Constitutionalist movement is the crystallization of the determination of the Chinese who have the advantage of study and observation abroad to rid China of the ills which beset her body politic and to re-establish her as one of the great nations of the world.
Thus no one man is responsible for the progress made so far and no one man is the cause of what success it has had. Yet the movement has its leaders and its outstanding figures. Foremost among these are Sun Yat-sen, Wu Ting-fang, Tang Shao-yi and Chen Chiung-ming. The first three of these are well-known and outside interest has centred of late upon the relations between Sun Yat-sen and Chen Chiung-ming.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.