Empire Community Settlement Scheme: Its Appeal to China Hands The Empire Community Settle ment Committee, an organization, formed early this year to facilitate ettlement the Empire of] persons of small fixed incomes, has made a strong appeal to old China hands all over this country.
Mr. H. P. King, hon. secretary for! Shanghai of the movement, has received so encouraging a number of applications for information regarding the proposals of the Committee working in London, that he has had, to write Home for fresh literature on the subject. He states that} humorous requests for further information have come from the remotest parts of China.
Apart from its great object of]
assisting "the more distribution of the white] population of the Empire," no scheme could be more appreciated than by people, of whom there are many in China, who do not care to retire in England where they have either lost touch with them, or most of their relatives and friends are dead.
As it was pointed out in the "Times" last year, the settlers would be neither farmers possessed of enough capital to buy Jand and stock and begin their lives. anew, nor labourers possessed of no assets at all save the will to work and the courage to succeed. They belong to that ever-increasing army!
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