Evidently the Loyang Warlord keeping a close eye upon this centre, and he is taking means to make communications more convenient than they are at present. A main road is to be made northward from Hankow, and it is said that) orders have already been issued that soldiers are to be employed in its construction. Hankow is also to be connected with Loyang by a long-distance telephone, for which the materials have already been ordered from abroad.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.