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been a remarkable achievement. Under the direction of the National Economic Council, highways were being extended before the war by the Central and Pro-vincial authorities to almost every important locality of the country. Since the war, the building of highways has been greatly intensified in the inter-ior. The most important trunk line in the Northwest connects Chengtu in the Province of Szechuan with Lanchow, where to meets the so-called Chinese-Soviet Highway to provide a direct contact with Soviet Russia. In the South-west the principal highways between the three Provinces of Szechuan, Yunnan and Kweichow have all been considerably improved. The much heralded inter-national highway, the Yunnan-Burma Highway, was completed a little over a year ago. The American Ambassador to China, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, was among the first to travel on the Yunnan-Burma Highway when it was opened. Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that Mr. Johnson returned to the Chinese war-time Capital in Chungking over another new highway between Chungking and Kunming. The motor trip over this new highway took only five and a half days, and the road is a more direct and shorter link between Yunnan and Szechuan than the old highway which goes through Kweiyang. The New York Times reported that Major McHugh, who drove the Ambassador's party over the road, said that from an engineering point of view the new road was in some places even a greater achievement than the Burma Highway.

These main lines and numerous other small networks of highways throughout the serval provinces are bearing the brunt of our commercial and military transport burden in the interior. In addition, there are ob-vious economic and social advantages in using highway facilities as a solu-tion of our transportation requirements.

Our Government is bending every effort to improve the highway systems. For supervision of the roads, there have been create the North-