The way in which the money is to be raise? isnot idea. The wealthy importer is to pray the bill, and this by the simple process of adding another 24 por cent, to all the ether import duties he is paying, Enough money: ready has been paid for the api of the Chang Kung dyke to allow fof making: it anew, but presumably the dyke-tax stil will be paid when the bridge tax begins, 'An optimist suggested that, when the tax had been levied for one year, the work could be begun, <0 that it could be completed in 1920, Presumably the bride will be 4.000 ft, long, if not more, and it will have to' be built on caisions sunk in the aut, The St, Louis Municipal Bridge is only 2,000. ft, Jonge and ity piers went down 157 ft, before rock was reached, so that it cust £110,000 before it' was finished. A year's savings ard a' year's work will not build the Wuhan Brid;
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