When the Chinese. engineers asked about the original computations of existing bridges and detail plans of foundation, the answer was ye simple ''The Germans did not give them to us," which is probably true. For this reason, the Chinese engineers have to rate all the bridges by careful computation. The writer feels justified to use the American bridge specification to rate the bridges because the Japanese Government Railways also use the American bridge specification. One 30 ft. bridge was taken at random and found
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