The Archive · 1935

Road Building Plan

In response toa. summons Nanchang, Ape. 14 General Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Military Affairs Commission, Mr. Hu Chiao-chao, Director of the Kiangs! Provincial Highway Bureas, eft here to-day for Hankow en route to Chungking, southeastern Szechuan, to supervise highway construction in Szechuan province turder to facilitate the bandit-suppres-

Interviewed, Mr. Hu said that there are now over 10,000 Ii_ (about 3,300 miles) of highways in Kiangs! Province; and, omnibus services are being operated on over order to guard against banditry' and protect the roads, over 370 military guard stations have been built along the highways—Kuo Min,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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