Chungking, Aug. 30.
With the end of the bombing season drawing rapidly nearer, plans for the reconstruction of damaged buildings are being studied at present by the Chungking Municipality, recording to an announcement made here today by Mayor Wu Kuo Cheng.
The reconstruction programme will be financed by Chinese banks, which have already donated $300,000 for this purpose, and by a number of private organizations and individuals, both Chinese and foreign.
The city will be rebuilt according to a fixed plan with a view to preventing the spread of fire oyer wide areas in the event that Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs.
Three quarters of Chungking's downtown section, wiped out by August 19 and 20. will, when rebuilt, consist of loosely-grouped blocks separated by wide thoroughfares. Houses will be built of bricks and will not be more than two stories high. The use of inflammable materials will be avoided as much as possible.
Orders have already been issued for the construction of such matsheds for 30,000 persons, whose property was destroyed. These people will be given work and generally looked after by the municipality.
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