Foreigners Demand Fair Compensation for Land Taken Swatow, Fe The Mayor of Swatow has com pained to the Provincial Government that certain foreign property> owners refuse to turn over a pore tion of their properties for demoli= Gon. It appears. that the Swatow authorities some time ayo approach-(d_ these property-owners with the request that they hand over certain lots to the government, +0 that the latter could proceed with the rond= construction programme. The foreigners were willing to part with such lots, but certainly not at the rate offered.
In the past, mai had to turn aver plots of resound, for which they had paid 1 market having the means to resist Jers at the present rioment are a lite tle morse fortunate, but, unless the yote authorities change thei in good time, they, toa, even= tually will he r just as Chinese have done in the past. weanocs of flour and Wan mixst daily, Distribution is made every second da given at Tanghohsian for some time, but this the city dwellers, Dweller country are still' without any prow vision, and their condition is deplore able," Doubtless lack of fands counts for the little being cone to relieve the acute distress.
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