magistrates of Hunan are severely reprimanded by the Hunan Provincial Government. to-day for their failure to complete the paoch!o Gomutual protection) system, tu taels within he stipulated time.
The pao chia system, which ough Jed from Wang An-shih, the noted statesman of the Sung Dynasty, was recently received by Gon. Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs, Commission, og one of the most effective means in checking the communist activities and is now bein: enforced in many districts, Ag a punishment for their failure to complete the system in their distrlels on time, each of the magistrates given a demerit. in their service ecord—Central News.
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