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Show YOUNG CHINA WILL REBUILD OLD CANTON J AN PRANCIBCO. Jan. 17. Old Cn-tun Cn-tun muat go. This la the decree of oung China.. lntfd of the evll-a mailing. mail-ing. unMnltory, cramped congeries of liovela and one-atoiy houaea. there will ila on Ho Nan .aland, uioalU the '"old town," a modern city, built with wide irr-ti. aanllary aewagn ayetema and itninii'ipHl bund, or water front. I Th-ri ambitious plan of th new re- r uolt(an regime were brought here yeeter-I yeeter-I i)Ky hv ft. Johuaon. rhlef engineer of I ih? 1'nntun tioard of publtn worke. flaml I i -ui wnent alive ut the republican pro- vlTntBl government of -Canton, member of tlit American Armv Kngtnoera aaao -laiton and one of the four Ohlneee mem-I mem-I ur or the American Society of American Amer-ican tngineera. ! Johnaon. cloae cropped, well dreaaed In . A merit air totha and epeaklng ex-ellnl l-:nglih. explains) on hla arrival from tie irtent on board tha Ohiyo Maru i i.it hi family name waa Joa Son. To 1 '"" the hiatus wae aaav. titRin tha rhang contemplated Hi. ' will needed. Johnaon la here hi t!ie hope uf marketing li.o.000 of a I iVM ).( xi bond laaue recent It MUthorlsed v the t'antoneee provincial government. t'Hiiton le the oldeat ctv of southern una. wttli a population given by Amer-1 Amer-1 an authorlttea aa U.(Hm) at tha last imp. hui evtlntated hv Johnson at 1. ( Hi now. I Tliei. in no thought of trunaporttng a I v Mait imputation hodlly or of shearing at f -ue swoup the ha hit a of centuries, hut , .IoIiiihoii Hld admlnlatratlve and com- I 1 inrrulat 'niterx w)ll he gliul to move to I t ie new lalHnd rltv for their own profit i itnl t'Dtivenlenre. and there will be a KiudiiMi exodus from tha oid residential ' nusrter. |