Chiang Kai-shek paid' the city a flying visit week ago and left on the Wednesday. 'The new broad West street was lined with soldiers and [cleared of people as he motored in from the aerodrome to the military headquarters, and even on the streets adjacent no' one "was allowed to carry parcels or bundles while he was expected. The life of the Gen feralissimo Is so necessary "to the peace of China at this tine that is not surprising that means are taken to protect it. The visit stirred the New Life Movement into activity, for since the General inaugurated it Jon his previous visit a year ago, [beyond pictures and slogans there has been little result. Now gain the police became insistent on everybody Keeping to the left and burioning their jackets. One sympathizes with every effort towards order and Jseemliness but.there are certainly more important things needing attention and. reform.
Gen, Chiang Kai-shek would notice many changes. He pald a visit to the new railway station which should completed by the end of the yea 'AN that district outside the north wall has been transformed. "A huge flour wilt towers on one side of the station and on the other is the build-Jing which houses the power plant which has been brought from Nanking. A little to the north on higher ground are about twenty" brickkilns, all busily at work, but not add-ting to the beauty of the landscape—one visitor remarked that the scene was like an American boom town.
Thousand-Year-Old Ferry:
The railway embankment is being pushed on rapidly to the westward and a well made conerete bridge now spans the main road just outside the th North Gate of the city. 'The rallwa will toon reach Hslenyany there has been a famous ferry {or thousands of years. Though the River here is narrower and the banks fare higher than elsewhere it is still formidable obstacle and an' iron idge will take a long time to build.
ig city will become an important business centre, - Most visitors to the province visit Hslenyang for it was not only the capital of Chin Shih Hwang T%; but close by are the tombs fof the Princes of the Chou Dynasty whose virtue is on abiding inspiration to the Chinese people,
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