The Archive · 1941

Roads Being Built

A number of other railways are still being built in free China but such lines as the Chungking-Chengtu railway, Tow perfect over most of its length aside from the actual laying of rails, are not being considered as serviceable at any early date because of the lack of rails.

Especially on the line just men-timed, this factor was taken into +20] account virtually from the start if "he beginning occurred under wartime conditions. Photos of the railway right-of-way to Chengtu show that tunnels, roadbed and bridges have been scrupulously constructed by Chinese direction and labour according to the highest foreign standards, Once Tails are made available, these lines can be completed in jig-time.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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