Peking, Aug. 25.
The engineering department of the China International Famine Relief Commission has recently issued a report on the engineering accomplishments on behalf famine relief during the past three years.
Analysing some of the figures, it appears that the new roads constructed by the American Red Cross and the China International Famine Relief Commission since 1920, if put end to end would provide two trunk highways reaching from Shanghai to Chungking in the heart of Szechuan, and from Peking] to Canton, In addition to this 2,000 miles of new road over 750 miles of repairs were also effected, the total cost being over $4,000,000, this sum providing food and shelter for both flood and drought suitorers, providing water for regions subject to drought some 25 miles of irrigation ditches were con structed at a cost of $51,000 and $6,672 wells were sunk at a cost of $405,000. Over 270 miles of drainage ditches were dug eleaned at a cost of $220,000, while 500 miles of river dykes were built or repaired at a cost of more than tone and a half million dollars.
The most notable expenditure on conservancy work was probably that in Shantung on the Yellow River, where the China Tnter-national Famine Relief Commission contributed $360,000 towards the reversion of that river at Lichin where it had broken its dykes and flooded the surrounding country. All in all, the Engineering Report thus presented is an interesting testimonial to the past achieve ments of the China International Famine Relief Commission and gives hope of a wide extension of its usefulness in the future, China International Famine Relief Commission.
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