The Archive · 1926

Canton Starved for Army

But in Canton there is th difference. So much attention being paid by the Government to its army and the carrying out of "red" ideas that there is not enough money available properly to carry out its street and road, building plans. Hence we find today a broad highway paralleling the Canton-Kowloon Railroad, and running from Canton in an easterly direction to a point opposite Whampoa, where the military academy iz situated, but unusable for the ranson that the Government has not the funds to build the many bridges which must thrown across the many streams and ditches which Tie in the path] of the road. In Canton proper, fare many streets which have been properly widened, but which have not been properly' surfaced. After having been in use for but a few months, they have become cut so that traffic to-day" passes over them with difficulty.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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