It Is not generally realized that within avery short time, it will be possible, by using roads' of varying Quality, and making some detours, to. motor from Canton to Peiping: nor does the Shanghai resident know that so far from Hangchow and Che-Kiang. being his only objectives by car, he can motor, on metalled roads, Nanchang and Changsha, and, if hie is prepared to face earth roads and deviations, can reach not only Hankow, but Kaifeng, Tsinan, and 'Tsingtao, while within one year, he will be' able to go all over' the country. two miles of main road outside Nan-King have been treated in a large umber of different ways. These includes several varieties each of stone pave, combined pave and conerete, all concrete, macadam, and tarmac. Observation and test will decide the order of merit of each type of surface, and the data so obtained will be of rear value' when considering the Sub-sell and local material in each art of the country.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.