The banking profession is not alone in laying plans for the spring. When April melts away Harbin's cloak of snow the Municipal building programme will be started in earnest, and by the time summer comes its inhabitants, it is boasted, will be unable to recognize the city they live in. As this programme consists mainly of macadamizing the roads and improving street-lighting conditions, the boast seems a trifle extravagant, but nevertheless there is no doubt that if these plans are put into life Harbin will change visibly-for the better. All the streets in the Sungari region are to be cemented and those fallen into disuse repaired, and considerable attention is to be given to the Fudziadian region where side by side with modern thoroughfares are muddy streets worthy of an up-country village. The suburbs, it is planned, will be connected to the city by wide cads while Kusiantung will be improved by a school, a hospital and leven parks. As to street-lighting, the lumber of street lamps are to be in-
Farmers Unable to Ship Their Surplus
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