The Archive · 1928

Gunboats for Canton

A local dockyard has completed gunboat on behalf of the Canton Government. She named the River Tiger. General Li Chi-hsin recently appropriated $1,000,000 for the building of four' up-to-date river gunboats. The River one of them, and the three others, now under constructions in the same months. dockyan, will be ready

'A Hongkong hotel company has delivered 200 mules and ten Moris six-wheeled commercial lorries to Li Chi-hsin, Both the mules and lorries are extremely useful in military transportation, and the lorries, fitted with tractors, can go over muddy roads and hills. Two engineers, representing the Chinese administration, came down to inspect the lorries and found them regular in detail.

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

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