The motor roads have been busy with traffic all this year since the buses were extensively used to carry passengers to and from distant places such as Ningpo and places in central China, other ports of entry being closed. To "catch the bus" has recently meant a physical adventure requiring "strength and unending patience. Often the vehicle left literally groaning under the weight of passengers and baggage, the pas-engers also groaning with discomfort.
But now that is all finished. Parts of the road to Juian and Ping Yang nave been destroyed. Every 20 yards or so of the road there is à deep gap (f some fifteen yards, with two mountains of shovelled-up earth on the roadway. All bridges have also seen removed. The roads running north and west have also been stopped in-a similar manner, There is not now a motor road in the district where traffic could run.
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