The Archive · 1937

StI Far Behind

"Consequently, the public think that China has made considerable progress in the past decade. Ho ever, in our opinion, we are still far behind what we had hoped for. The late Party Leader (Dr, Sun Yat-sen)

n his "Plan of National Reconstruction' enjoined us to construct 100,000 UG3.333 miles) "of railways and 1,000,000 li (333,333. miles) of highways. We "have constructed only About 10,000 1i of railways and about 100,000 i of highways. We have achieved only 10 oF 20 per cent. of the programme mapped out by the late Party Leader. In other respects, we have not achieved even 10 or 20 per cent.

"Henceforth, we should redouble our efforts for the completion of our ask and fulfilment of our mission, believe that we are all inspired by this sentiment at to-day's memorial service. It is incumbent upon us to ce-operate with the people through-'Out the country for the fulfilment of our mission of building the New China."—Kuo Min.

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

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