'Those repairs, of course, tempora arily: Inconveniehee, but no one minds that, if the Work goes on ata. good pave. But, one feels compelled te Enguire, why' do the powers. that be permit "great lengths of roadway. to Be" bulted up in the" autumn,. just before the severe frosts begin, when they: know well that: the foundation cannot be. properly" laid until spring warmth has. taken the hardness. out of the ground? Ports of the city Have been in this state for months, much to the annoyance of shopkeepers fand other business folk.
The amount of motor traffic in Tainan streets must have doubled and re-doubled Itself within the last year or two. With an eye to the not-far-distant future "when there. willie SUL" more cars running about, new bullaing lines have been oid down in the busy quarters. The authorities have" decreed. that incase. of any structural alterations being necessary {o shops, oF other buildings, the whole fabric must be taken down and set Dock. a" certain distance from the Peiping, Apr. 16.
srviewed by the Cinese press this morning Major Imai, Assistant Japanese Military Attache in Peiping, said that Sino-Japanese negotiations garding the construction of a railway between Tientsin and Shihehia~ chwang and the development of the mines at Lungyen had been proceed~ ing very smoothly but no agreement had yet been reached.
Major Imai confirmed the report that a number of high Hopel and Charhar officials were going to Japan shortly on a mission of inguiry and Investigation but he added that he did not know anything about the personnel of the mission or the date of Its departure for Japan.
He further said that Major-General Hashimoto, Chief of Staff to the commander of the Japanese Garrison in North China, was expected to return to Tienisin from Japan in the course of the next few days—Reuter,
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