The Archive · 1926

More New Highway

On the surface at leart they have, They have only the good of the Pro vince in view. Reconstruction is their motto. Wide roads are to be built throughout the Province. A road to Tachienlu joining up with the highways into Thibet has the first place, Roads East to Chungking, southeast to the Salt wells, south to Kiating, and Suifu, north to Tungchwan, Paoling, even to the borders of the province, are all being mapped out and the superintend. ents are being appointed, As soldiers are to be used, these superintendents must be selected from the military.

The agitation to do away with the arsenal keeps its head above water, the daily papers reported that two factions got into a dispute within the arsenal compound and destroyed what machinery had been left by Yang Son's soldiers when they made their hasty retreat. This incident has strengthened the appeal for its abolition.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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