Both Magistrate Hsii and General Li, who is now officially appointed military officer in permanent command of this eastern section of Honan, are working to clean up this city of Kueiteh. The streets are being kept clean and every shopkeeper has to have a water pot at his front door for sprinkling the dust. The old police have been reorganized and only those with some knowledge of reading and writing are now employed. Local self-government is also being brought into being, the proclamation stating that the Magistrate aims to have Kueiteh as a model city and wants the ce-operation of all. Investigation is being made of all temples and lands pertaining to them, with a view to turning them into schools. This has already seeing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.