Construction Trans Oon Own Comzaroxooer Changsha, Oct. 29.
longer is the contemplated railway from Kweichow to Hunan Question mark. Work officially began fon October 1 and the government project is progressing rapidly. The oilway, which Is one of three me tended to bind the western provinces; to the Central Government, will run between Kweiyang and. 'Chucho meeting the Hankow-Canton Railway. at the latter point, The unification China, which has been the guiding Gen. Chiang Kal-shek, will in a few years become a real Tutu as the provinces of welch Srechuen and' Yunnan are concerned, work has commenced on
yang-Chengtu railways, these projects ug-Yunnani and. Kwel-will be undertaken when the Kwels yang-Chuchow railway has been completed, The new railway, fully surveyed, will. cover 1,100 kilometres, Siangtan the soil has been upturned for the first bridge across the Hsiang River. "The structure, one of three urge bridges on the route, will be Dbullt, with American imported steel, 'Over' 5,000 men, pald at the rate of 50 cents per'day, have been employ ed from Sianglan. to work on the construction, All things going well, the engineers lan to complete' the, span in about eighteen months, This railway, as many other con~ sidered roads, is not intended at first to be an economic success, but is principally for military cohesion of the provinces. The officials of the building company are hoping to reieelve some additional, funds from Britain, Visitors to Changsha Changsha was pleased to play host last week-end to Mr. and Mrs, Carl 'A. Wittfogel, Mr. Wittfogel, in the Service of the Institute of' Pacific Relations, is in China doing research. history of China on which subject ho is one of the world's foremost! authorities, Their home is In Germany, but they were living in York before coming to China in June 1085, Since that time Mr. Wittfogel studied at the College of Chinese Studies in Peiping.
Before coming to Changsha he visited Wuchang and Nanchang, the universities there he conducted economic seminars with the economic professors. "He has drawn up a ques tionnaire on "Chinese Family Relations" which will be presented to the students of the various schools and universities including Yenching, Central China College and Yali, He left Changsha on Octobber 25, for Canton and Shanghai where he will algo submit his questionnaire for consideration. Then he plans to return to Peiping to continue his Traveling with the Wittfogals was MraJames Bertram, Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand. "He also ts work-Ing for the Institule of Pacific Rela tions and has been studying in Peiping.
'A group of 21 Chinese girls from the True Light School in Canton under the direction of Mrs. Hoffman and Miss Hawk visited Changsha at the request of Gen. Ho Chien, Governor of Hunan, who greeted them with a feast at/Nanyu and insisted that they journey on to Changsha in private bus. While in Changsha, they visited' places. of interest and public buildings with passes from the Governor,
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