Chikungshan, Aug. 12.
Students from' Sinyangchow are forbidding the shopkeepers to sell groceries to foreigners on pain of heavy fine, necessitating closing of the shops.
The residents do not anticipate great inconvenience. Negotiations are pending- through Gen. Chin. Yun-ao—Reater's Pacific Service. maximum height of 24 feet T. D. This will, naturally, require the roadway at each of the approaches te be raised to that height with long ramp lending down the Rue de France ut one end and at the new roadway on the ex-Russian Concea+ sion side.
To lower the road level of the bridge is not considered to be a difficult matter, although it will require, so it is stated, some structural iterations inthe framework, which, to put it simply, will have to be squeezed into a space smaller than the originally planned 5 feet, in order to maintain the same clearance of 3 feet above the maximum high water mark, Tt is reported that the builders Jare prepared to make the changes, but that the present acting staff of the Hatho Conservancy Board does not with to take the responsibility for authorizing any alterations in important matter.
Thus the matter is left pending the return of the Engineers of the Haiho Conservancy Board, who will take the matter up with the authori ties concerned and bring about a solution satisfactory to all parties.
Tt does not according to information available, that any' person is responsible for the diffi culty, unless it was the failure to foresee that the suppliers in France would be well within their rights in putting the entire bridge road level at 24 feet T. D., the stipulated and the Credit Foncier, who con template erecting a building on the North-East corner of the Rue de France and the bund, are in a quandary over the ultimate road evel, which in the firat case will effect the present hotel building and in the second delay construction on. an. extremely valuable site. armament on' our part will dis-company will be dissolved.
Tupan Sun's support.
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