Hankow, Apr. 28.
The Rev. Kwilhelm, of the Liebenzaller Mission, has been. kidnapped by bandits at Kienyang, Hunan, The matter has been communicated to the authorities at Luanchow and efforts are being made for his release—Reuter. been done and the manner which the streets of Canton City are being built these days. The making of wide streets has become craze all through the province, it seems, and in Canton many the narrow alleys in the Western Suburbs, a thickly-settled district, are to-day torn up, and several feet of the fronts of sil buildings facing these alleys are been torn away, No Money Available at Canton in Canton there is this So much attention being paid by the government to its army and the carrying out of "red" ideas that there is not enough money available properly to carry out its street and road building plans. Hence we find to-day a broad highway paralleling the Canton-Kowloon Railroad, and running from Canton in an easterly direction to a point opposite' Whampoa, where - the, military academy is situated, but unusable: for the reason' that the govérmient: has not the funds, to build-the shnany bridges' which mirist be thresin across the. many. streams and ditches which lie "in the path of the. zoaJ. In Canton proper,'
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