It Is good news to those of us' who summer in Tsingtao that plans are now under way of continuing the road which goes by Chingkow and Hsinchuang and Haitow on to Taoloa, in Shantung, all the way tu Taingtao. The long bridge at Haitow uffered from the heavy flood in the river there, and a more substantial structure will probably have to be put there, The word which we hear that the road to Tsingtao is to be built under he auspices of the Salt Administratiom which assures its being a satisfactory piece of road-building. The new road is to follow closely the coast line most of the way from Haichow. When this road is completed and the roads to Tsing-Klangpu, Sulsien, Hwaian, Yencheng, and Suchow'u have been either improved or completed, Haichow will become the centre of one of the largest systems of good roads to be found in this part of China. The road to Teingtao will greatly simplify the summer excursions of the residents of inland cities of this north-fern section of Kiangsu.
Progress has been made in the building of a good road into the heart of the bandit section in which Rev. J. W, Vinson was captured by bandis about three years ago. The road fe being built from Panpu by way of Tunghsing to Yangchiachi, and from there to Hsiangshulkow, with another line running to Chenchikang, near which the foreign captain and first offer of one of the steamers loading salt there were kidnapped by pirates. Most of the bridges on these lines lines have been built, and itis hoped that the roads may be soon open for travel. This will be a great step forward in bandit control_in this section, Telephone lines are to follow all these good roads, and it Ys not too much to hope that banditry may be completely wiped out in the sections traversed by the ways,
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