London, Nov. 5. The construction of a £1,250,000 reservoir at Staines for the Metropolitan Water Board, is making good progress The area covered by the construction is 350 acres with a circumference of throe and a half miles.
An army of 1,000 workmen, aided by the most modern mechanical ex-
Chinese pursuit planes took when the alarm was given.
An alarm was also sounded oft cavaters, scrapers and caterpillar wagons, is moving 7,000,000 tons of this 000 and forming a water-retaining morning at. Chengtu, the provincial capital, where another party of Japanese planes were reported to be proaching from Shansi, doubtless heping to trap any Chinese planes ficeing from Chungking-Meanwhile, the Air Defence Headccrewall of 680,000 tons of puddled clay.
It is intended that the reservoir will add 4,400,000,000 gallons of water the Board's storage capacity as a in times of drought— las
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