After allowing the matter to tie dormant for a number of months, the Good Roads Movement has once more brought up the scheme of constructing a road round Shanghai so that the activities of the two Muncipal Councils' may be; definitely circumscribed. Moreover the promoters of the scheme have gone further on this occasion, for they talk of approaching General Ho Feng-ling to get "him to set kis soldiers on to the job, as was done in the case of the Woosunz highway. Possibly General Ho will think it worth while doing, but we would suggest that there are many much better road-making schemes on which his men would be more Fiofitably employed. There are any number of places in the vicinity which ought to be connected up with Shanghai by road, and-such highways would be of real commercial value og well as benefit yo the community. When the Hongkong Government started driving roads through the Kowloon territory, the country people' were quite surprised to find that they meant an easier marketing of their produce and an end to long and arduous journeys over country paths in the doing thereof which formerly toeg up so much of their time All round about Shanghai farmers need better facilities for bringing their vegetables and cotton to market, and a scheme of roads radiating from Shanghai into the heart of the adjoining country would be a boon to them. So if soldiers are to be used for local road-making it may be hoped that something of the sort will constitute their task, and not a road starting nowhere and ending nowhere la particular and without any useful object to recommend it.
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