ing to be Raised: Pu System to Operate protect the Inter ational Settlement from floods duc] J to high tide and typhoons, it was dis= closed on May 26. The Public Works Department, it "was learned, started preli combining a the water to the Whangpoo River.
The outer edge of The Bund Is to be raised about three fect.
The project, it is estimated not entail great expenditure. Tt will offer an efficient safeguard against serious emergencies from flooding such as Shanghai has experienced in former years, With a large number of workmen Jengased on construction of the "sea wall" and on the Installation of the pumping system, it is expected that the entire project will be finished well before the start of the typhoon. season this year, that is, before the middle of July, "It will extend along the whole Bund from the Soochow Creek to the border of the French Concessto
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