The Archive · 1928

Northern Refugees

On a recent trip into the heart of the province people fleeing before the storm in the North were met as well as local Chékianye people. The folks from the North were looking for the coming of the Southerners as a relief for their troubles while the Chekiang people were looking for the return of Son Chuan-fang a relief from theirs. In both cases the great outery is against excessive taxation, Our police magistrate was chang ed a few weeks ago and now the district magistrate is being chanyed. As yet there are fow signs of public improvements inthe city though in the cities farther terior considerable activity is being, shown in building public markets and eetabliching public parks.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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