A number of large mat sheds have been erected on the Fongchuen shore directly opposite, the river from Shameen, and these ate being used Jas barracks for the strike pickets [who are being put through a rigorous course of military training, the dea being, apparently, to send many strikers as possible to join the Northern Expeditionary Army, Those strikers who are not pickets must be supported by the government until they either get back their former positions or find other work. They will be maintained in their present quarters in variow parts of Canton, but the government is now considering several plans which will furnish work to large number of the idle labour-! fers, and will take them away from Canton City.
One project which the government is considering is the completion of the Chunugshan Highway Jwhich runs from this city along ithe north bank of the Canton River to a point directly opposite Whampoa. Although this road was start ed some time ago, it has never been finished, and it is considered to be such an important military work enabling, as it will, the rapid transportation' of troops' from the military station lat Whampoa to Canton city, that the government is anxious to have it speedily put in first class condition.
Another project is the bull Jot a deep water port at Whampoa. If the mangy can be found for this undertaking, everyone of the strikers can be put to work and kept employed for many months to come,
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