and Szechuen Some interesting impressions of progress proceeding despite the turmoil of civil warfare, Common: ists and bandits were gathered chief engineer of Callender's [Cable & Construction Ca., Ltd., in Shanghai, who has just " returned from a. six weeks' business tour through parts of Honan and Szechuan, in the course of which he covered more than three thousands miles in the interior, by every form lof transport from coal train to fzeroplane. During the greater part of the journey Mr. Gordon was /accompanied by his daughter.
An outstanding feature which made itself evident throughout the trip, stated Mr. Gordon in an interview with the "North-China Herald" twas "the remarkable development in means. of communication. Eveywhere new highways are being built, in spite of general lack of money, and inhabitants of countless jfowns are clamouring for roads to Bink them up with other communities, notwithstanding the fact that no" compensation is paid for land {taken from them for such improvement purposes. They are willing to stand loss of property in the ope fof raising the value of "what remains, The Governor of Szechuan, too, has decreed that wherever. new bridge is constructed it shall be guficient to carry a full width road.
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