rus Shanghai Municipal Council has approved a flood prevention scheme submitted by Mr. A. F. Gimson, the Commissioner of Public Works, embodying details of a project which, it is understood, has been exhaustively worked out and experimented upon and will effectively combat the floods which have been a bane to city dwellers since the emergence of Shanghai from a village on the mud banks of the Whangpoo to a port of world prominence.
The scheme involves the expenditure of $4,000,000, but the estimated sum required this year it was learned, wil not exceed $400,000 or ten per cent. of the total required by the
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