The Archive · 1923

Money for Good Roads

For a second time the Good Roads Movement of China ask that remitted Boxer Indemnity funds should be used for the promotion of highways in China. At the present time of asking the suggestion is that such money should be employed to repair old roads as well to make new ones, and no doubt there is a - very plausible argument at the back of it. Accepting that assumption it might be as well for us to point out that there is an equally good case for suggesting that, in the event of such a use of the money, it should be returned to the pub-

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