The first snow fell in Harbin this week, but on account of th mildness.of the weather, it at on: became slush, begriming the streets and: making them most unpleasant for pedestrians, Denders for supplying of new steel girders for the bridge across the Sungari are being called for, and. will be opened in, January. It is the first time that they are being changed since the building of the bridge which was completed close on. thirty years ago, It is expected that the old girders will be used for the making of carriage and foot traffic bridge which is becoming more and more necessary with the butlding of the new town of Sunpei on the right bank of the Sungari and the growing of Zaton, the wintering place of the Sungari Commer cial fleet.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.