Ho has always followed the policy of opening the remote regions as swiftly as possible by the construc tion of roads, and he is doing it here, From Chungiing he ordered the early completion of the road from Chungking to the one built northwards from here, and also one from Changsha into this province. That will relieve conditions here immensely, tf officials do not fasten on to the new meant of transportation to make a fortune out of the travelling people and. those who ship cargo. That will be stopped time, of course, for already there are signs of it onthe existing roads towards Kuanzsl.
The Generalissimo sees the great necessity for the development of small industries to use the raw products available. Here there is an excellent, chance for hydro-electric power comparatively short distance away as the conveyance of power goes. Some eighty or ninety miles off is a waterfall some 300 ft. high which could develop power easily for the whole province. In Kueiyang we have a /small plant which turns on electricity from 7 to 12 at night, but the city cannot get it or afford It with the exception of a few cross. streets. Other streets are pitch dark, and most of the touses are dark, too, Transportation is 50 coully" that kerosene Is too expensive for the average citizen "and vegetable all is too smoky and too dim for much use, So when the shadows of night come they close their houses and curl up in what beds they have,
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