Building in the city continues apace. 'There are so many new bath houses that we shall' soon be living in a state' of perpetual hot water. the north suburb on the main road about 100 cave dwellings have been hewn out of the loess dif and Atted up with a brick front, wooden door and window. This is a cheap way of dealing with the housing, problem.
"There does not however seem to bbe any. building regulations to which people must conform and some of the new shops are flimsy enough. One cinema just erected had rather a wide span and the whole of one end built of gun-dried bricks collapsed sudden-Iya day or two after It was completed, 'A Journey taken recently north of the Wel River revealed the striking Aifference the: irrigation scheme has made in the Chingyang and Sanyuan Ong remembers this lstiet in the famine tim detert, streams were crossed by Urldges, long Ines. of willows strelehed along the banks of the canals. One heard the sound of tiny welrs'and all round, were Tluxurlant crops of cotton and millet.
Forty-five It east of Sanyuan there stands on a ridge the tomb of Tang Kaotsu, the founder of the Tang dynasty. It commands a magnificent view over the whole Wel valley and with a little imagination one could all up the scene at the funeral in 638 AD, the _imposin singularly quiet sited by winds and bees and an occasional pilgrim, Foreigners Join Chinese in Festivities
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