Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — Chinese Canals. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Canals.

At what period the Chinese began to dig canals, there is no authentic rec; ord to prove. Sometimes it seems as if .these remarkable people must always have had canals and other works, so long have they been familiar to them and so well established have they been as a part of the country as the men from the Occident first visited it. One thinks of the Grand Canal of China and the Great Wall of China together, although, of course, thejr have nothing whatever to do with each other, except that they are both ancient and remarkable works of the Chinese people.