It is expected that by the Chinese New Year the Defenos Crock will have been filled up as far as Canton Road, and from there the work will be carried on as far a the Yangkingpang. By the time this has been accomplished three-quarters of a mile of creek will have been filled up, and the Council will then have before them the task of laying two miles of pipes along the Yangkingpang. This will not entail so much excavation work as the laying of pipes along the De. fen Creek, inasmuch as the bed of the Yangkingpang much lower, but difficulties from water are anticipated.
Before the road is completed, a number of bridges will be ni more, the biggest work in this reapest being the removal of che Nanking Road bridge. The tramlines will make this difficult task, for the road will be lowered to the ordinary level, and while this being done an arrangement will have to be made by which the cars oan pass over. When the whole scheme is completed, a very fine road—or it may well be te-med boulevard—will have ben formed, making it possible to get from the West Gate in the Chinese City to the Soochow Creek.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.