to Government 'A valuable piece of jade, weighing 80 catties, is to be presented by ional Government to be ficial geal of the na-by My. Kuan Loh, a sp" xentative of the Sinkia Government, who has already arrived in Tientsin and is due to arrive here in a few days. The jade, which was discovered recently in Hotien, Sinkiang, anq is said to be of beautiful colour and of great value, will be polished and carved after being taken to Nanking.
According to a statement made by Mr, Kuan to members of the Chinese press in Tientsin, the Sinkiang] addition to making pre the development of the famous Altai gold mines, they propose to build a road from Tihua, the provincial capital, to Suiyuan. Considerable] progress, he says, has also been! made in connection with the educational ard industrial development of the province.
During his visit to Shanghai, Mr. Kuan will conduct negotiations regarding the purchase, on behalf of} the Sinkiang authorities, of motor cars and. motor trucks' (of which there are at present some 200 in the far-off northern province), aeroplanes and wireless apparatus for the development of communications.
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