The Archive · 1925

CHRISTIAN GENERAL'S WORK IN CHINA'S NORTHWEST

Promising Beginning of Colonization Schetes: His Aim to Transform Desert Wastes into Good Farming Country From Our Own Consesroxvest-

Peking, Sept. 9.

Feng Yuchsiang is attacking th: problem of the development and Colonization of the Northwest in a manner which, it appears, will eventually yield great benefit to himself and to China, building a motor road across the Gobi from Paotowchen, the terminus of the Peking Suiyuan Railway, to Ninghsia, on the Kansu border, a distance of 400 miles, and many of these canaly have now dried up, but Feng Vu-hsiang has lately asked the technical of the China International Relief Commission in u plan for "digging them out, and providing the region with a system which will assure plenty of water for all the settlers who can be attracted.

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