Good Work: None the Less in City|Mill Working -Reduced: -Steam Improvement and Refugee Relief Frow Aca' Owx CoantsPonvext Tsinan, Mar. 7.
Tsinan is once more humming with military. activity. Soldiers can be seen everywhere, and one of the commonest of! daily sights is that of a long-line of new recruits, many of them-but- boys, being marched along the streets." To which it} should: be: added that the boom of guns andthe crack of rifles are common sounds. Some practice marksmanship, indeed, would seer to be called for. For a few days ago a member of the staff of the Shantung Christian University was welking along a road within a few] yards of the University Campus, when he was startled by the whizz} lof a bullet just over his head, and the following day two bullets passed through the window of the school} for foreign children, and buried] themselves in the opposite wall. These were said to be the chanco shots of some police, inside the south suburb, who were trying new]
les to the peril of those who were! on the other side of the suburb wall!
Civie Improvements, It is pleasant to be able to report that the authorities are not 20] preoccupied with military affairs that they can spare no thought for} public tasks of a more constructive} character. The narrow street that Trads to the West Gate of the city. which has larg been inadequate for the amount ¢f traffic it has to earry, especially since motor cars began to multiply in the city, is now)! being greatly widened. 'The shop fronts are cil being taken down, and pushed back no inconsiderable tune: Your correspondent {s net] in a position, hawerer, to report what compensation is' being given to the shopkeepers.
Relief of Flood Refugees 'The autho-ities' are also carrying through a colonizing scheme to re-Yiove the distress created by floods in some parts of the province. Just outside the South Suburb of the city are about a thousand refugees, being eared for by the Famine Relief] Commission, while numbers similar victims of flood are daily} being taken down the Chiao-chi line by the Provincial authorities, for transportation to Manchuria. In] addition, large companies are ing their way on foot northwards. Alli of these homeless sufferers will ibe settled in new districts in Manchuria, In order to relieve the distress in this province still further, the authorities have purchased supplies of Manchurian wheat, which is being sold. at prices fixed by pro-
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