$900,000 Surplus to Prevention.
New York, Nov. 26.
Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, chairman of the China Famine Fund, jannounced to-day that the executive: committee will devote a surplus '$900,000 to the prevention of future famine in China after it has met: present demands. It plans scientific study and education in agriculture and forestry. The sum of $7,750,~ 000 had) been sent there for the relief of millions in 1920-21, he said.
The plan is based upon. creation of a conditional trust which is to continue ten years. Nanking and Peking Universities have been selected as the educational centres. for the study and investigation of famine causes, prevention and. relief. Expenditures may be made jonly with the approval of the China famine Fund Committee, which is. to be composed of five American residents of China, serving without pay.—Reuter, Accorpine to the Shunpao" the Ministry of Justice has ordered the various provincial authorities to put in chains all. prisoners whose crimes are very serious or whose re-, cords are bad. Those whose offences are of a minor nature, states the order, are not to he chained.
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