The inmates receive their allowances tour separate classes. Those officers Th who surrendered receive $20 a month and soldiers $7.50, but those. offers who were captured receive $120 month and soldiers $8. About 300 of them who voluntarily surrendered are highly intelligent and were respon sible leaders in the Communist government.
"The women inmates are very young, the average age being about elshtecn. They all have bobbed hair and wear Gark blue dresses. Col. Hsin states that the first baby of the reformatory was born a few months ago. The women and, men inmates live and receive their training in separate Quarters and are not allowed to intermarry.
"There is a recreation room where the inmates Iisten. to. phonographs, play ping-pong and practice with instruments. The monthly total $40,000, Tt was started in Nanchang fu November, 1933, and was later moved to Kiukiang. At one Lime It housed over 6.000 inmates.
learned that, for over a year, there has Been no case of violence the reformatory and no inmate has fever ined to escape. It is the policy of the institute not to punish thy inmates For petty offences confine ment {¢ the usual punishment. while serious offenders are turned over to the military authorities—Reuter,
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