Railway Construction Progressing: Time and Tide "No Longer Wait" a Fooat Oun Ows Comnesrosoexr Paoki, She, July 2.
Undoubtedly the most outstanding event of the last Yortnight, " apart from the harvesting operations, has been the intermittent, heavy rainfall, Pack! has "gone wet" with a vengeance, greatly enhancing the prospect ofa bumper autumn harvest, Obviously, this has also affected the Tevel of the Wel. river,. greatly interfered with all modes of travel, Resides demonstrating the urgent necessity for immediate construction of a suitable, durable bridge (pre~ ferably, of the overflow type) to facilitate transportation to and from the railhead.
Popular rumour has it that commencement upon the construction of the first section of railway across the Fiver to. Tunghochiao Isto. be soon; should this be so then the railway bridge may appear first although recently an oficial party traversed the highway from Szechuen nto Shensi with a" view to effect improvements and it was hinted Uhat time that the bridge for motor walla would receive serious conside-
'Apart from the small motor ferry public ferry' is constantly operation some distance down the river. It is invariably crowded with cads of brushwood, charcoal and produce of various kinds whilst the Dumerous passengers scramble and cluster over everything. Should it be true that a large new motor forty now under" construction some @istance down the river its arriv will only alleviate, not solve the problem. It has yet to appear, In the meantime bus passengers are doomed to spend many hours under the burning sun waiting for a cross-11g. One afternoon six vehicles from Hanchung arrived at the river about $30 pin, several military buses: among them had to unload beforehand but it was not until 10 a.m. the following morning that the a one of that batch plowed through the tinnd flats on the city side and went on their way—rejolcing!
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