Protests moat Our Owe Consésoxoeyt Kaifeng, Honan, July 18, Kaifeng is is the throes of a CChung: Shan street" thet mer clean up" along "ti
stretches from the old South gate of the city" to the Chung-Shan Public Gardens, "which for thousand years Has been known as the "Lung Ting" or Throne Room. of the Sung Dynasty palace, For two months the Municipal Government acting under orders from the Mincieng Ving. Governe pene Chil Governstent Oiee, have ihe sirct at The averted intent n carrying out, sltveys alo
present width, wies ion of widening' it to twice I
As the Lung-Kai Railway south of het and a grant Volume of the trate and "freight from the railway passes through this south" gary and along the Chung-shan sttest, and a each year more and more aitotratic uses the street, it has been for long apparent that something must be don relove the tat Angier tion would have been either tearing down the walls of the city or opens ing other gates, several years ago the Intere national Famine Relief Association and the Government" Philanthrople Bureau united in relief for the poor of that year and built a new road and & new gate east of the present oath te, But hat til an not along this street, Nt Me safe een sufficient t) mal
Now on both sides of the street from the south gate to the Hsing kung Imperial' Palace corner of the "city "demolition is going on, The city fathers have had reason to believe that the people dwelling along the street would' not begin this work of their owa accord, and 80 a civic stof of many workmen, escort of large" groups of armed police started work on the morning of the July 16, and now the whole length of the street looks, 88 if " cyclone had struck it The street has been 80 feet wide: it 4s to be widened to 58 feot and jelther side there are' tu modern side-walls built and a modern metalled road. For. the Present the work will end at the Hsing-kung corner, which is near the Provincial Government offic But when this end of the afreet is cleaned up the work will proceed north to the Lung-ting." While for the present all is in chaos, tually it should present a very thoroughfare, A few days ago the Government Civil Bureau Commissioner, General Chang Pei Ying was surprised on leaving his otics to be surrounded but a great crowed of elderly women, who knelt in the road and would not permit him to go away. Thele mission was to have him rescind the order for demolition that was to go into effect on the following da But a very nominal recommen from the city coffers to the pockets of the inconvenienced property owners is to be made, and to great, concern has beea felt' by the people most affected, Te is reported that Bureau head consulted "with the Police officials and made i known that while the work must proceed more relief than had been promis would be made to those. who were to be their greatest sufferers, "All widows would be" recompensed in full for their tosses, and those dwelling in one or two. chien of building will be "accommodated in other" convenient responsibility of the Police Bureau,
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