Tsangchow, Hopel, June 2, To be in line with the national campaign for road-making, proseeuted with vigour in other provinees, Hopel, under the energetic leadership of Gen. Sung, feverishly has been constructing two roads for motorists, one of which links 'Tsangchow with Yonshan to the southeast. 'This road, it is reported, has been continued' Into Shantung—beyond Lading, The other starts from Peiping and, passing through Hoehlen and Hsienhsien, follows roughly the old cart highway along which, before 1900, officials used to travel rom the South to the erstwhile capital of the Empire, In the. nelghbourhood of these broad tracks, made simply of beaten earth, whose surfaces will be sadly damaged by the summer rains, I found consider able dissatisfaction among villagers, who had been recruited as Jabourers, a definite pro rata quota being demanded from each village, at a rale of 40 cents per day, paid by the headman from a special levy. The road from Tsangchow to Yen shan was made in an amazingly short time by this forced labour, Availing himself, for part of the way, of the second road, a medical colleague recently was able to make the Journey from here to Siaochang hhis motor-cycle in 5i¢ hours, assily beating the previous record for this stretch of 90 miles, half of which is along the usual poor country cart tracks,
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