Tientsin, Apr. 21.
Loans totalling $5.000,000 are being sought by the Tientsin Municipal Government for the purpose of modernizing the city, the Mayor stated to-day. A loan of $1,000,000, he explained, already has been ' secured from local banks for the construction of new roads.
Negotiations now are under way between the Municipality and certain French interests for a loan of $3,000, 000 for the repair of dykes and the erection of wharves and bridges—Central News. side door gives entrance into the. interior, Slowly approaching it, its shadow relieving the eyes from the surrounding glare, the gold letters of the memorial, cut in pale green-grey stone, stand out above the pile loft elaborate wreaths. The five-foot incense sticks were smouldering, though the ceremony was long over.
The rear shoulders of the court were kung with hundreds of white Scrolls conveying messages of condolence, congratulation, regret and patriotic fervour.
Much-travelled Corporat The corporal who allowed us to enter by this then-guarded route, and who startled us by announcing tis familiarity with Brisbane, knew Sydney and Melbourne and had visited New Zealand, France and London, now took us fo the rear of the tower.
Here lay hundreds of tablets, set nearly flat in conerete, each having on it in red the name of one of the memorialized dead. Pathetically expectant lay a number of plain tablets, ready for inscribing thereon the names of those yet to die. The effect of a "silver plaque" on thie hillside, cut to an angle of 75 degree, was obtained by setting the steep slope with semi-glazed pieces of rock, the whole acting as a giant reflector when tke sun shines at certain angles.
'On climbing the rim of the reflect for, the view was as quietening as that from the stair-head was solemn. There lay at our fect the graves, the tower with a national ensign stretched flat on its top, the level court, the stairway flanked' by curved motor drives, the causeway leading to the entrance arch, all severally decorated with flags and flowers.
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