ROAD ON GREAT WALL

Shannon News, 8 June 1928, Page 4

ROAD ON GREAT WALL

HIGHWAY THROUGH CHINA. East is East and West is West, and the ' twain may ultimately meet, in China—on the great wall of China—if August Edward Barrett, lately of China, formerly of Eussia, and now of New York, means what he says. He says, modestly enough, that he intends to envert the great wall. Of China into a high-speed motor highway. Not all of the wall, as. there are too many kinks and curves in it; but all the sections that traverse mountains, and particularly those which dip amongst the canyons of the Khingan Range. There it is 30ft wide and about 25ft high. Barrett is now asking American car manufacturers to help finance his project, which will provide an Unbroken highway thousands of miles long. Such a road, he says, will open new car markets in the East.

So Mr.; Kipling may yet isee a -western product of 1930 skimming along the top of an Eastern barrier which was built in 220 B.C.