A copy of the Year, Book for 1996 of the Government of the Yung-ko-yue which includes the City of Wenchow, having come into ins hands, 1 am venturing to select items here and there fzem its mass of Information Yoat_might interest seeders living in other d'ruriets. This record of past achievements and fulure plans reveals the great progress being made here {in the general movement of modernation. I have mentioned roads In previous articles. In two or three years the population of this district] Ina time of declining trade has built many scores of miles of motor roads through mountain areas, with-ut the ald of modern machinery, although the feat required the blasting of great distances. of road. through solid rock, and the erecting of bridges over streams at frequent intervals.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.