Chungking, Oct. 4, Mr, Nelson T, Johnson, United States Ambassador to China, will lay the corner-stone of a new block of buildings. to be used by Chungking's war victims, at a special ceremony at 10 ofelock tomorrow morning, The building project, it may be recalled. has been financed to the extent of US$10,000 by the American Red Cross, The block will consist of ten one story Houses, a station for sedan chairs, and a public dining hall. It will accommodate forty families, The new quarters will be constructed in the Wan Lung Men district, near the ferry crossing to the South Bank of the Yangtze, at a cost of $280.00 and will be completed by January.
The block will be the first of a series of new residential quarters planned for Chungking under the reconstruction programme.—Havas.
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