Rome, Aug. 14.
The total area now being reclaimed in the Pontine Marshes covers in all 42,500 acres of land. The official plan for the transformation of the vast area for the coming year in= cludes felling of trees and "removal of stumps ina district of 20,000 acres of wooded land, the breaking up of untilled land over an area 42,500 acres, the construction of 1,017 farm houses, 200 kilometres of new roads, 976 kilometres of new canals, and drainage of four farming centres and villages.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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