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MOTOR ROADS, WATER WORKS, ELECTRIC-POWER PLANTS,

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS, 20-STORY BUILDINGS

South China has gone ahead far, roads over which hundreds of motor more rapidly in modern constru- buses pass. Long-distance bele- tion programmes than has Central phones are in operation all'atorg or North China, Scores of cities these roads; many of the cities and in South China during the past 10 towns of the Provinco have been er 15 years have been partially or modernized; and banditry has been

almost completely eliminated.

LONDON'S TRAFFIC

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INAUGURATION OF

GOODSWAY"

HUGE RESERVOIR AT TOKYO

ARTIFICIAL LAKE OF 4,000 MILLION CUBIC FEET.

Despite the handicaps which Han-t kow has suffered in this past few

As a measure to free Tokyo per- London, October 7-A complete i years through radical communist activities, floods, and other catne schome permanently to solve Lon-manently from difficulties arising trophes, the Chinese city shows re.don's many and urgent traffic pro. through the lack of a sufficient markable signs of modernizing ac-blems and at the same time to give water supply during the summer the City of London the quickest and months, the construction; of a vast tivities, including the construction of a hund along the river connect- ing the foreign settlement with Hunyang, and also widened strecta throughout the city itself.

cheapest gouls service of any great

town in the world-all underground reservoir in Nish-Tama Gun, on was inaugurated on October 6. the outskirts of the city, at a cust The founder, Mr. Cedric Erlund, of Y,30,000,000, has been approved

Probably no other Province has explained that this "Goodaway" as experienced so much in the way of it will be called, will, by's network by a special committee of the public improvements during the of auderground goods railways, re- municipality in charge of water- past few years as Chekinng. A 183 lieve 60 to 65 por cent, of London's works. milo standard-gage railway has atreut truffle congestion, wave in The proposed artificial lake, will transit from 80 to 80 per cent, of have a total capacity of 6,000,000,000 wholly reconstructed.

completed, franced entirely by

the time now required to move A network of Canton is naturally the most out. Wuehow, on the West River, has provincial funds. standing example. Twenty years been transformed into a modern motor highways has been construct ¡ago its widest street would permit eominercial port, with 4 miles of ed. the streets of many cities have only of the passing of two sedan burdings and 12 miles of wide been widened, and hundreds of chairs, and no wheeled vehicles, streets. The town has a modern modern buildinga erected thereon. other this whcelbarrows, were to drainage system, waterworks, eles Electric-Light Plant at Hangchow support 100,000 people during con supply the capital has.

be found on ita thoroughfares. To.tric lights, public parks, and a day the city has over 60 miles of system of schools and colleges in wide, modernly paved streets, over which upward of 1,000 motor cars move, to add to the hustlo and

polis.

keeping with the demands of the prosent day.

goods about Greater London; sim- cubic feet of water, which is ap- plify transportation, and relieve it proximately 13 tinies greater than of charges estimated, at £30,000,000 the reservoir at Murayama, which manually; increase goods traffic on

at present is the largest water the railways; employ 38,000-men,

AS construction

Municipal authorities, also have decided upon the construction of a a. large scale

as well. Peiping also is so noted filtering station on

Improvements at Tsingtao. struction; cost 'only £13,910,000 to Due to its enormous size, the epn- complete; give any milions of struction area of the new reservoir Hangehow city has surprised the pounds' worth of orders to indue now includes a number of small foreign tourist on his firat visit, try; restore to passenger traffic the villages, which Nanning, the present capital, and with its civis improvements and freedom of the streets; and increase bustle of that great southern metro. Liuchow, the prospective new one, general beautification. Hangshow the carrying capacity of the Lom work is pushed will be demolished"

have undergone a complete trans recently installed one of China's don omnibuses by approximately 30 and taken away. Kwangtung Province has built formation during the past four largest and most up-to-date clectric-to 35 per cent. several thousand miles of road con- for five years. Their city walls lighting plants. It is expected that hosting many of its interior and have been replaced with modern within a few months the Shanghai- town cities, and soon a road will thoroughfares; electric lighting and Hangehow motor highway will be connect Canton and Swatow, running water have been installed; completed. Plaïs are under way to Modern building construction has main streets have been widoned; connect this highway with Chapu, responded to the widening of the land parks, schools, and athletic, a beach on Hangchow Bay, strects, so that four, Sve, and six grounds are participating in their story buildings have roplaced the new educational programmes. little one and two story structures along the main thoroughfares. Two hridges are being constructed, con- necting Canton City with Honan Island, to relieve the congested population of the city.

for its excellent colleges that it near the present Murayams reser-

may be regarded as a great educa-¦ voir, while additional plans aro

tional and art centre. When the plans for the now Tientsin, the commercial capital' capital at Nanking are completed of North Chinh, is conspicuous for it should be one of the world's hand-its numerous palatial banks, rank- somest cities. Much already has ing next after Shanghai in the num- been done by way of inaugurating ber and beauty of its modern bank- the construction of this strategicaling institutions. ly located capital.

being considered for the establish- ment of a big hydro-electric-plant utilizing the dam of the proposed lake.

Motor Roads.

Yokohama, the city which until Motor roads are being construct

last year had been almost annually. ed, connecting Kwangsi with Hu

suffering from a shortage of water nan, Kweichow, and Yunnan Pro

Shanghai Lends in New Building

every hot season, due to increasing vinces, so as to constitute inter- At Tsingtao it was expected that provincial highways. Flying field 'after the city was turned over to

and Industry..

consumption, now has been entirely freed from this fear with the com- . | Kwangsi Province Completes Exten-, are being laid out in the larger the Chiness the improvements and.

Shanghai stands out

a the

pletion recently of a new filtering sive Building Programme. cities in connection with a

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developments for which the German premier city of China i modern station capable of holding 750,000 gramme for commercial aviation. 'administration whe responsible construction. Kwangsi until quite recently was Wireless stations have been instal would not he maintained. On the doubled during the past 15 years, of water at Nishiya. The site of Its population has koku (a koku is about four gallons) rated as one of the poorest and most backward of China's Pro- led in the leading cities and towns contrary, Tsingtao is not only being and it is now rated as the fifth city the station is to the west of the port vinces. To-day it enjoys the dis- The former army of the Province woll administered but considerable of the world in population. Shang-city about two miles' distance from tinction of a balanced budget and of having upward of 2,000 miles of has been reduced by over 50 per additional improvements are being hai has been undergoing a steadily the railway station at Hodegaya.

cent. Agriculturally much is being made The Shantung Railway, as active rebuilding programme, done to improve Kwangsi Province, operated under Chinese adminis-may be described as the gateway | including the planting of hundreds tration, is showing a substantial through which the Weat is percolat of tung vu trece.

profit each year.

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Transformation of Amoy-Progress of Hong Kong.

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Felping and Tientsin Forging Ahead

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ing into this great ancient civiliza tion. There are how in course of construction two buildings upward

The main feature of the Nishiya water plant is the water filteration equipment, which consists of four gigantic filtering pumps, each with daily capacity of 200,000 koku,

of 20 stories in height. Shanghai, which amounts to about five and a In Fukien Province the city of Many who have not been in con- therefore, can boast of taller struc half gallons of water for each citi Amoy has been completely trans tact with Peiping during the past tures than any section of the world, zen, and exactly double the quan- formed during the past five years. year or more are under the impres- outside of the American Continent, tity per capita until last year. The Once rated as the dirtiest and most sion that the city has been under-There are in Shanghai upward of a present works is the third exten- going rapid deterioration. Instead hundred modern apartment houses,sion enterprise in Yokohama since backward of all cities of China, Piping to-day is in better condi- many of which are over 10 stories the establishment of the city's first has become one of the most pro tion and more beautiful than at any in height.

reservoir in 1883, and also marks gressive. There have recently been other time during the past 60 or Thus, in spite of wara, civil, dis.

andi numerous other the completion of the first stage of constructed 41 miles of motor roads 100 years. It possesses many miles torbances,

of modernly paved streets and its catastrophes which characterize a public works construction pro- on Amoy Island. In some cases road-construction programune con- China in transition, modernizing, gramme, the second stage of which hundreds of graves had to be remov-tinues progressive. Many of its influences are apparent in nearly provides the laying of 1,100 mili old palace buildings have been re-overy section of the country, work od to make way for the roads. Amoy novated and repaired. Much has ing toward the reconstruction of metre, water mains in the district

i can boast of the most beautiful been done in many other ways to this ancient nation, only now at the of Tsurumi, and is expected to be public park in all of South China.ward beautifying not only Pairing inception stage of development of Three and four story buildings have but the Summer Palace buildings its rich potentialities for trade and completed by the end of the year.—

(Continued on next column.) industry.

Japan Advertiser. been erected along the sides of the newly developod thoroughfares of that now city. Amoy University oc- cupica several team of acres, with. modern buildings especially con- structed for the purpose. The hund along the foreshore of the city has been improved and beautified.

The British Colony at Hong Kong and the Kowloon lensed territory on the mainland opposito are making very rapid strides in modern com- mercial, residential, and industrial construction.

Central China Proceeding With Many Improvements,

At present, Hunan Province, although surrounded by areas, in- fested with communist brigande, is pro- reviving its reconstruction gramme inaugurated a few years ago, especially in extension of its This Pro-

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Bzochwan

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