The Chinese authorities waited until the work was nearly completed and then they issued the "ultimatum" voterred to, that work would have to stop on the 20th. As a mat ter of fact, the work had by that time been finished and the Chinese authorities were aware of it. Tt was not on account of the so-called "a!- timatum" that work was stoppd, for, as stated, work had already been done, and the Council's—worknien "had withdrawn, As to the Great Western Road, the "Chinese authorities: had made complaints in the press and elsewhere regarding this. Work had been caried on by the Council between the railway line and Kuang Hua University -in Great Western Road. The University now has-a bus- running over the road with the permission the Council. "Formerly, this was nly a mud road, but the University
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