In these days when walls and gates are apt to be thought of as mere relics of less enlightened ages, it is interesting to know that the local authorities of the hsien city of Yungho, have obtained the permission of the Shansi Provincial Governor for the removal of the city from its present position perilously near the bank of the Yellow River, to a site some 15 li away. Contractors have been advertised for and the work is about to commence. The existing walls of a village are to be extended and improved~and gates, towers, yamen, prison and all other public buildings essential to the dignity and status of a county capital are to be erected immediately. For many years the fiver has been threatening the city and at times much inconvenience spite of all the Conservancy engineering—whatever in the present instance these might amount to—once again a big victory stands to tie credit of "Qhina's Sorrow."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.