Japanese Experts Coming To Build City Tokyo, Feb. 10.
A boatload of Japanese civil engineers will sail for China on February 20 to engage in building a "greater Shanghai along the left bank of the Whangpoo River adjoining the International Settlement," Japanese reports said here today.
The engineers, who assemble at Nagasaki on February 20, have been employed by the Shanghai Real Estate Ca, a Sino-Japanese joint concern, Japanese reports said.
"Town planning has been completed already as a result of several actual surveys of Shanghai and vicinity by Japanese experts," the reports said. "The new and greater Shanghai will be divided into commercial, residential and industrial zones, interspersed with parks, "When harbour construction is completed, it is expected that the largest ships will be able to pull up alongside the piers. Work on the project will begin with the former municipality site as the centre."—United Press.
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