The Archive · 1937

Famous Stone Bridge to Be Repaired

Peiping, Apr. 14.

The famous stone bridge in Chao Hsien, South Hopel, will be repaired. The Hopel-Charhar Political Connell has instructed the Hopel. Provincial 'Administration to appropriate $18,000 for this purpose. The bridg built by the Sung Emporo Taung os a memorial to his mother. 'According to Chinese tradition, It was fat the spot where the bridge' stands that Jen Tsung identified his mother after years of separation. The bridge took more than ten years to bulld and is one of the most famous, relies Hopel. recent years it has Dr fallen into decay—Reuter,

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

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