This highway not only cost the Provincial Government" over a million dpUlars in hard cash, but also was expensive in the lives and Limbs that were sacrificed in the undertaking. "Many of the workmen were seriously hurt or permanently disabled, and 150 paid the supreme sacrifice' in one way or another. To suitably commemorate the lives laid /down there has been erected at each end of the road—at Hochih and Luchal—a small but attractive portico and near by a tall obelisk on which are inscribed the names of the honoured dead, and the cause of their decease.
'A great deal of the credit for this inter-provincial highway is due to Mr. W. W. Wang who when the cond was put through was at the head of the Provincial Bureau of Reconstruction at Nanning and it was through Mr. Wang's untiring efforts that the enterprize was Inunched and brought to a successful conclusion.
Buses make a daily run from Kingyuan to Luchai on the Kwangsi border, and return over the same route the following day. As a rule buses reach Hochih about ten am. Here a short stop is made to take on passengers and then the journey is Fesumed. After a seven mile run up, very gradual ascent the Ta-Shan-rang bridge is crossed. This bridge, -Kwel chow highway, Is 73 feet high, and spans a ravine through which' runs turbulent mountain stream, Then Begins the ascent of the TaShan Tang mountain, the highest peak lover which the road runs. The engineering work here is excellent. The road winds, bends and curves to say, the monk remained on the spot where he had landed. The crowd was horrified and did not know what to do. Finally, one of the employees of the Society who' was there approached the body and found it to be rigid and lifeless. It soon fell to the ground after he had touched it. The body was later buried next to the pagoda.
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