Tsingtao Mayor's Impressions of Recent Tour Tsingtao, Oct. 17.
'The view that there can be no real advance in the provinces. until com munications are' improved was. pressed by the Mayor, Admiral Shen Hung-lich, in a statement concerning, hhis_ recent tour.
The Mayor, whose tour occupied a month visited six provinces—Shansi, Charhar, Suiyuan, Ninghsia, Kans and Shensi—studying political and educational conditions and Inspecting industrial enterprise 'Admiral Shen was much impressed by the improvements made, and the activity evidenced in public projects, but said that, owing to shortage of funds, construction work' ws
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