Link with Shanghai to Be Opened Next Month Nanking, June 21.
Direct motor traffic between Shanghai and Nanking will" possible some time in July, if not this month, according to a statement showing the progress of highway! development In China.
Over 18,920 kilometres of motor roads have been constructed since May, 1982, in the various provinces under the direction of the National Economic Council, and through motor traffic is now possible over 31,000 kilometres of national highways. Up to June 15, this year, loans: naunting to $8,470,000" have been advanced by the Council to various provincial governments for highway construction.
When the Council completes its construction Programme, through: niotor—traffic will be possible throughout seven provinces. The Shanghai-Nanking, Sharghai-Kwangsi, and Honan-Canton highways will be ready for through motor traffic either this month or the next. The Council proceeding with highway consuuetion work in Kiangsu, Chekiang, Anbuel, Kiangsi, Hupeh, Hunan, Honan, Fukien, Shensi, Kansu, Szechuen, and Kweichow provinces Reuter. freight cars and suffer great inconveniences, - but on crossing the frontier, the trains put at their disposal consist almost entirely of third Glass passenger cars, and on every train there is a dining car and a recreation car, so that it is no wonder that foreigners who have met the returning railway servants at the frontier, Chita "and Irkutsk, state that everyone of them bore happy faces and were evidently pleased with alt that they saw. At the rate at which the railway servants are now leaving Harbin, it seems hardly possible for all of them to be out of the country before September, and in any case, as the Soviet authorities are Rot compelling them to leave, any compulsory measures to be taken will have to emanate from other sources than the Soviet.
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