Designed to Link Northern and Southern Railways Hankow, Oct. 15.
A tentative project for the construction of a gigantic iron bridge eros the Ys ize River, which cuts kow and Peiping-Hankow Railways, and to facilitate communiation between the cities of Wuchang, Hankow and Hanying.
Preliminary plans for the gre span have been worked out by' Mr, Mao Yi-sheng, engineer-in-chief of the Chientang' bridge at Hangchow, who has been engaged by the Hupeh h provincial government to do the Hankow bridge. According to Mr, Mao's plans, one end of the bridge will be fat Hankow and the other at a point between Snake Hill in Wuchang and Turtle Hill in Wuchang. "Besides rails for train transportation, the bridge will have roads for motor vehicles pedestrians, it Will be high and rickshaws, and pavements for
enough to' allow the biggest river steamer to pass under it, The project also allows for the construction of two smallers bridges. to stiuetion of two smaller bridges object of easing congestion of trafle—Central News.
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