BUSES IN CHINA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 8

BUSES IN CHINA.

REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT. One of the remarkable things about China in recent years is tiie rapid development of motor roads, according to Rev. J. Thompson, who is visiting Australia on furlough. Ten years ago, Mr Thompson said, narrow tracks served for transport-purposes. ' “A journey which took a day when people travelled by rickshaw or canal hoat,” Mr Thompson added, “can now be done in an hour by motor buses, which are very common on tlie roads between the principal towns. This is more so in tlie inland districts, owing to the cheap water transport in the coastal areas.” Mr Thompson said this road development was mainly due to the energy of General Clnaiig Kai-Shek, the head of the Government who was tlie ablest man in the public life of the country. He was responsible for much more settled conditions generally. Japan had lost a lot of trade since the Shanghai incidents. Indeed, Japanese goods were hard to find in the shops of southern China. Although Britain lost prestige over the surrender of Hankow in 1926, she was still regarded as reliable in business, and British goods were sought when quality was desired. Mr Thompson belongs to tlie China Inland Mission, and was stationed at Clieekiang, near Shanghai.