As recently demonstrated -by a arly of Chinese in a small British Ford, motoring from Shanghai via Yushan and Nanchang to Kian, Kanhsien, and Tayu, and on into Kuangtung is both practicable and pleasurable, low cars are running from Nanchang to Fuchow (Nancheng) and south to two late Communist. headquarter cities, Ningtu and Shulkin, and from hence into Fukien at Hsingkwoh, another old red. stronghold, buys mostly from Kian because of the motor road from Taiko. The road to Kanhsien now needs' only the 60 1 section from Kiangkeo to Kanhslen to be made by the Kuangtung officials in charge there, for Hsingkwoh to buy again from Kanhsien as for the last 2,000 years. 'The road from oh to Kiangkeo was finished in a few weeks, and we hear that four divisions made the Ningtu-Yutu road, 240 "li long, in about a fortnight The bigger' bridges often prolong. the time before cars can run by another two weeks, Except that the curves frequently slope outwards, the work is good and rea sonably solid, with a stone-packed central strip," and good ditches on each sid These last few days we walked over part of the Hsingkwoh-Kiangkeo road, and found the northern soldiers and stonemasons cheerfully cutting and blasting arts of the road over stone ridges. On the Yutu-Kiangkeo road, three pneumatic drilling outfits are at work on a long stretch of rock at Hsiahshan.
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