What we think is the best plan for the soldiers is te send them to colonize the f¥éntiers of China. They eah cultivate the land in those regions and make their living by farming. There are three apparent advantages in this plan:—
The first is that the large domain with cultivable fields along the fern boundaries will hold soldiers may live upon the land' they cultivate and the resources they can Geyelop during their lifetime for themselves and for later genera tions, Thirdly, all the soldiers he turn for such work and can very easily be educated in farming anethods, The Chahar and Suiyuan Aistriets are most suited for such colonization as means of communication are better developed, especially as a railway runs from Kalgan to Paotowchen. Provisions were made for the cultivation of this land during the Manchu dynasty. Furthermore, there's water supply in the Hotao of Suiyuan, There is possibility for colonization in Sinkiang Province if motor road can be built from Paotowchen to that province,
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