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Show UU j SHANTUNG ILL GET AUTO TRUCK Pian Underway to Develop Transportation Facilities in ' Chinese Province T.SINAN. Shantung Province. China. While the SJiantung problem remains re-mains unsolved and the Japanese oc-pupatlon oc-pupatlon of arc. us Germany formerly I controlled continues, a means to op-pose op-pose the Japunfsc has been worked out along economic lines by C hu Vlnsr- 1 kuanK. Civil governor of the province C'hn Yln-kuang, who has come to be regarded by foreismers of the Far: ESai t ax one of china s gi eatest administrative admin-istrative figures, has launched the dar- i Inrr project of building within Shan-I Mini; a Krea l system of highways to! be used by an automobile truck ser-Vice ser-Vice in connecting all Important centers. cen-ters. As n corollary, he plans to deep- I en and kmproe waterways so that) these roads and streams will afford to Chinese Of the province a transporta-i tlon system that will place them on an equal footing with the Japanese who, now control channels of communication. communica-tion. I nder the direction of T'and Bn- ! Hand, a graduate of Purdue University Universi-ty who has been made director oi the newly created bureau of Koads and Waterways in Shantung, active surveying work id connection wlih thej project has been Started out of Tslnan and present plans contemplate the building of 1,600 miles m highways nd the deepening of the h-mi" Cn ing river. The purpose is to WCSVC all mi- portanl cities of the province into a unified transportation system. Under existing conditions many of i these cities, as for example the port of Chefoo. are hamstruru? economically ' by the la-k of adequate transports -tlon facilities. The Chinese hope the plan will break the backbone of Japan Ja-pan i economic domination In Shantung Shan-tung Governor C'hu's proposed motor road system touches the sea at three points. I, ling K ou. Chefoo a?d Hal Yang and connects with the Tientsin and Pukow railroad at a point not vet determined The whole road system sys-tem is made up of seven trunk highways high-ways connected by 10 branch highways. high-ways. A soheme of financing to carrv out the big project by which the funds to do the work Will be supplied In part by merchants land owners and Others to be benefitted and In parti by the , provincial government accord-I lng to official announcement, has re-calved re-calved widespread endorsement throughout the province. |