Peiping, July 2.
The construction of a highway connecting Tientsin and Tatung, in Shansi province, is one of the projects decided upon by the Recunstruction Administration of the Provisional Government, which has ordered the engineering bureaux at Peiping, Tientsin and Taiyuan to cooperate in the undertaking.
The highway starts irom Tientsin, cuts the Peiping-Hankow Railway near Kaopaitien, crosses the Hopei-Shansi border at Laiyuan and ends in Tatung.
Survey work was started at the beginning of June and work on the Tientsin-Pahsien (in Central Hopei) section has already begun. Classified as a state highway the engineering bureau concerned are building it into a first-class road—Reuter.
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