Dr. Sun calls for the reduction of the total number of China's troops by half and the conversion of this half into labour corps for the construction of roads, railways and other works of public utility. If this principle is accepted by the principal party leaders, Dr. Sun that they join him in in-yiting a friendly foreign Power to assist them in devising ways and means to work out and put into operation this principle of troop-disbandment, including the raising of a disbandment loan which; is to be spent and applied under the supervision of a foreign expert and of five delegates representing the interests of Agriculture, Labour, Commerce, Education and the Press in China.
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