Work In improving the channel tween the Hungtze Lake and the Grand Canal near Hwalyin was begun in 1033. The Board of Trustees of the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity Refund Commission was requested to finance the first stage of work in this connection to the extent of about $6,000,000.
Up til now the three locks on the Grand Conal are practically complete and the excavation for the rear regulator at the southern exit of the Hungtze Lake is well advanced. The west dyke of the Grand Canal from Hwalyin to Shaopo has been closed.
Work in dredging a leading chan-mel to the sea by way of the old Yellow River bed was started in 1934 under the joint auspices of the Kiangsu Provincial Government and the wal River Conservancy Commission—Central News.
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