Chungking, June 15.
The new highway linking Kunming with Suifu, on the Yangtze above Chungking, which is intended to be an alternative route between the interior and the Indo-China and Burma outlets to the sea, will not be completed for at least five months, according to foreign reports, Considerable portions of the road have been built, and it was expected to be open for traffic soon, but a foreign engineer who attempted to fake a lorry along the road was forced to give up the attempt. according to his story there are bridges over the numerous streams, and he only succeeded in proceeding by constructing his own temporary
able bridges where fording was impractic-
The highway, he reported, was in poor condition. In places it was unmetalled, and in others strewn with boulders that were apparently to be broken up later for road metal. Finally, when more than two-thirds of the journey had been accomplished with much effort. it was found that there was a gap of more than hundred kilometres between the portion that being constructed from the Kunming end and that Zellensky, b. Kale Zeldaietos, €. Tippin, b. Kale Marvey. c. Underwood, b. Kale Fraser st. Doy, b. Tippin Farmer, b. Underwood Pensham, e. Shis, b. Tippin Gilbert c. and b. Norman flüxiey. e. and b. Underwood Greenheld, b. MeIntyre Bankhan, 'b. McIntyre Dodd, not out Extras Total being built from Suifu. whereupon the attempt was abandoned.
Some disappointment is expressed iti foreign commercial circles that mis important project, affording ar alternative route to the overloaded Chungking-KweiyangsKunming road. has not been prosecuted more vigorously, bearing in mind its importance io China's present communications.—Reuter, DEO 6-39, 7-39, Fall of Wickets Foreigners, Chinese Not Bowimo ANALYSIS
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