New Currency Not Well Received Wuchow, Ku, Jan, 5.
The capital city of Nanning this week will bid farewell to Chang' Pah-kuei's Tronsides for they are! moving North to be ready to parti cipate in the Sino-Japanese war, if there is to be one." There are some who, while not discounting their: patriotic zeal, think they wish to be a little nearer to Nanking to lend emphasis to any thing their Wang Ching-wel might have to say. In the interest of the peace Kuangsi the 10th Division of the fourth route army is to remain on the Poseh river.
The present, peaceful conditions existing in Kuangsi_ is largely attributable to the reconstructed native militia, of which Gen. Pet Chung-hst_ is" Commander-in-chief.
each of the seventy odd hsien ities of Kuangsi are regularly appointed army officers in charge of the' local militia and bandit suppression is going on apace. Other excellent innovations "are specially detailed army units for work on the motor roads. The traveller will meet these men in uniform carrying. not the all too familiar rifles, but ick and shovel, Still by no means can the sword ye said to have been beaten into the ploughshare in, Kuangsi. The old Communist. leader Wei Pah-kum is still foot loose in the western part of the province with over 1,000 armed followers... In a, recent' campaign. however Gen. Wei's right hand man, Gen. Pang, was killed. Unless there is further fighting between the north and south, the Communist trouble in Kuangsi_is now off the "first except in the "mountainous districts of Tong Lan and Feng san where Wei Pah-kum still en= ores a Commiunistic government.
'The new Kuangsi paper currency is not too eagerly received by the Popiilace, due' to past experience with stich currency in Kuangsi Outside of the large cities it) is nearly impossible to use it. With a former issue the people were suddenly found to have on hand a large amount of depreciated currency and in a certain country district dollar bills were torn in four Darts each part being negotiable, 10 cents. The present issue differs from former Kuangsi paper. ccurroney in that there is not a word of English appearing thereon.
This week the Longchow-Nanning road will be officially. opened, cero: ig in charge of the Yof Reconstruction, Mr.
Motor cars will meet at a point, the dedicatory cere-many consisting of the cutting of a ribbon between the two ears. One may then travel from Nanning] to Longchow in less than a day The Tumours of a French invaston of Kuangsi still persist, aggravated by the inability of the Teeal Kuangsi_ government to come to any agreement with the French regarding the amount of indemnity dive to destruction of the Frenel Consulate and Mission property by the Reds in Longchow two years ago. The Chinese recognise " that indemnity should be paid but are not willing to meet French demands, However a French invasion Kuangsi seems to. emanate from Dame Rumour, Nanning was the scene of great hilarity when the news of Chiang Kai-shek's resigna-Yien was received. A general holi day, Jantern parade and free thea trials gave plenty of opportunity; for demonstration over the resignation of their enemy and the, "com pletion of the Southern Govern. mont's work." The inclusion Chiang Kai-shek in. the Coalition Government at Nanking "is not _weleomed at Nanning. surveys wre sent out to the follo ing centres: Yochow, Hunan; Han-hows Hupeh;. Kiuklang,. Riangst; Nanking, "Yenching, Taichow, and eingkishgpu, Kiangeu; and Wahu, Hualyuan, and Showehow, Anh
cooperated with local organisations, Uhesecetres. the investigators shierly churches, and. so. obtained focal' investigators. from nearby hsiens, who were then brought and trained in making' the flood survey. in their own regions.
Schedules. they brought back were then cheeked at these centres by the investigators from the University of Nanking, and. incorrect schedules were either discarded or another survey Was made, Theee types of schedules were used; the farm schedule, the village Schedule, and. the. hsien schedule. The sampling method was used Bach "local investigator was. structed to choose ten representative Willages in the section of the sion (county) to which he was assigned. village schedule was filled out for tach of these villages, In two these ten villages, faun schedule were obtained from fifty farm Tamilies. Wherever possible four sections, were studied In each badly Tooded hsien (county).
"The. information ebiaingd us to losses and needs may be summarised briefly'as follows:
The farm population affected is equivalent approximately to" the Entire farm population of the United States. "Forty-five per cent. id] of all farm buildings in the flooded area wore destroyed. Forty per cent, of all persons in the flooded tarea have been foreed to migrate cither to nearby high land or to other counties for the greater part of the winter season. "The houses were Aooded so as to be uninhabitable for an average of 51 days. The average maximum depth of water on fields was nine fect, The losses represent the following per cents of winter inventory values; Duildings, 45. per ent; livestock, 59 per cent; fuel, fodder and stored grains, which was more than usual in quantity because of harvests just made, 112 per cent., and farm equipment 61. per cent.
The losses for 121 hsiens affected by floods, based on losses per family in localities surveyed are as follows in millions of Chinese dollars: Crops flooded, $867; buildings $470; Inbour animals, $135; implements, $19: stored grain, $79; clothing and bedding, $68; stored fuel, $60; furniture, $54; productive animals, $30; stored fodder, $15. 'The total loss' is about two billion Chinese dollars (not including losses of broken dykes, road damage, and xccond crops of rice and winter crops which would not be planted).
The average total loss per family is $151 Chinese currency. When it is borne in mind that the average farm family has for net earnings about $300 Chinese currency a year, can easily be seen that not only all earnings for the year bat much more has been lost.
In November, at a time when the real pinch of the famine had not yet come, the diet of the flood affected Persons was already reduced by third from the usual diet generally already minimum for existence.
'The immediate needs are food and Glothing for people, foder for rope and. repairs' for. buildings animals, seed for planting pri
For food 503 million dollars is necd-ed, for building repairs 470 million dollars is needed, for fuel 88 million dollars, for clothing and bedding 86 million dollars, for all other needs 94 million dollars making a total of Approximately one and a half billion Chinese dollars. Tt hat these are minima ned was found that in most cases people did not ask for as much as was actually lost,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.