All northern -Kwangtung may be traversed if the motorist at Shulhing follows the highway up to Shulkwan; from there he can continue over the mountains into Hunan, From Shao-kwan south there is a splendid road right down to Canton, On May 23 General Fan Teh-shi who Is Military Administrator of the Central District, was in the city of Pao On. A lot' of the peasants who twice have been under the compulsion of meeting heavy assessments for highway construction were glad to see the General. Why, they wanted to know, had the highway board been throwing away their good money for nine Jong years without getting a single road finished? The board was only supposed to connect up Pao On with the town of Sumehun, which es across a narrow str New Territories of the Hongkong, and with Taiping, near the Bocca Tigris Forts, General Fan is looking for th answer to this question, has disband the board, and its. thirteen members. cannot go far from home until their official "actions "have been satistactorily explained, 'The Pao On resi dent' whose name led all the rear at the foot of the petition calling for this Investigation had had to ell his young daughter to meet his highway Assessment, would be double-deckers. Instead of making the passenger pay so much: regardless: of distance travelled, he would divide each line into sections, and tickets would be sold at the rate of five cents for each section passed destination. by the passenger on his way to his
Yang did his own picking out of hig car routes, but the Municipal authorities hold that there would be {frletion with present franchise holders with which those lines would com-"Municipal advisors are to re-Foute the lines, and then if Mr. Y agreeable to the changes the Mayor and his counelimen will see if it will not be wise to give this enterprising. capitalist the concession for which he has applied.
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