general disbandment cannot be effected at once, the report suggests shat the military authorities should [cease recruiting their present forces. Reduction by, death, desertion, di generally estimated! tobe at the rate of 20 per cent year. Therefore, a cessation of eeruiting would go a long way in the direction of reducing the present swollen armies.
The Commission has much constructive advice to offer in the, penditure of the Government, which amounts to $56,000,000. 'If the military force of the country were reduced to 50. divisions from its Present total of something like a 160, including, unofficial units, a saving of $10,000,000 would' be effected. motion of industries. It mentions the improvement of the Grand Canal, the Huai river scheme, the extension of the Cantor railway, the construction Hankow-Szechuan railway, and the ding of arms from the Pekin Suiyuan railway, one to Taonanfu,
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