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Show WALLS OF CHINESE CITIES Immente Structure Be Demolished t Make Way for Modern Improvement. Shanghai. China. -The decision to demolish the ancient wall surround-In surround-In ff Shanghai city g an interesting sign of the times as well a the preliminary pre-liminary to an ambitious scheme of development. Scores of coolies were at work, says the North China Dally News, with pick and shovel on that portion of the city rampart which faces the street leading to the old yamen. The ' MZjZ'l . CW 'rtslit, I'mlirwund A t oilr mxl, N. Y. Fort on the Great Wall. wall itself Is several times wider than tlv alleyways along which pedestrians rind rickshas innke their devious and dlflleult way In that pnrt of the city. T!ie spare acquired by the removal of the wall should therefore, if UBcd to belt advantage, be of considerable value. It appears to have been suddenly discovered that the wall is useless as a means of defense and that it is an ugly Impediment to the development and Improvement of the native quarters. quar-ters. The work was put In hand Immediately Im-mediately the order went forth from the town hall works department that it was to be executed without fall. The owners and Inhabitants of shanties on the wall have been ordered or-dered to remove these, 'and any fences, material, etc., which would Impede the progress of the- work. An outcry might have been expected, since the scheme had been strongly opposed, op-posed, but the order has been quietly accepted. In fact very little interest seems to have been aroused by the work, even though it inaugurates a striking change. Two of the principal gates in the city wall of Hangchow have been removed. At Canton the republican government has ordered an investigation investiga-tion as to tbo population and the number num-ber of hoimes along the wall inside and outside the city. The officials deputed to the work are to report in a month, submitting a list of the houses and residents, together with a scheme for the demolition of the entire en-tire city wall. |
