Plan to Dig New River and Fill in Whangpoo 'A scheme to dig a new Whangpoo River and to develop the Shanghai harbour as one of the world's finest. ports is being devised by the Bureau of Harbour Affairs for Greater 'Shanghai, 'The scheme is in accordance with' She principles Yaid down by the ate Dr. Sun Yat-sen in his books "San Min Cha I" and "The Inter~ national Development of China."
The Bureau of Harbour Affairs proposes that two years should be spent in making a survey of the new river bed and for the purchase of the land through which it will pass, and that another eight years whould be devoted to digging the new river, to filling up the old Whangpoo, and to constructing dams, dockyards, ote. However, it said, before the scheme can satis factorily be put into effect, it will be necessary to remove the silt at the entrance to the Yangtze.
Should the scheme be realized, At $s said, Shanghai will become o of the greatest harbours in ti world.
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