Chefoo, Oct. 1.
Military operations, as already reported, have recently been unde taken by the troops of General Li Chien-nien against bands of "Red Spears" in the district between Huanghsien*and Tengchowfu, south of the Chefoo-Weihsien motor road.
Many conflicting reports are current with regard to the burning of villages and the killing of their inhabitants, It is known that the Senior Consul on September 26 interviewed General Liu Chien-nien requesting him to. intervene on humanitarian grounds and that a representative from the Chinese Chamber of Cor merce also interviewed General Li 'A report from American mission ary sources dated September 30 states that eighteen villages which were linked up with Sigia, one of the centres of the "Red 'Spears" movement were all burned, some worse than others. At Sigia it reported that even women with babies in arms who' fled into' the cornfields were cut to pieces by. the soldiers:
The operations are not yet over but it is stated that altogether Nanking, Oct. 1.
'A comprehensive scheme of land reclamation by disbanded soldiers has been proposed by Assistant Director Cheng Cheh-jen of the Repatriation Bureau of the Central Disbandment Committee. The: scheme briefly provides the following measures:—(1) The establishment of a Land Reclamation Office.
(2) The employment of about 10,000 men selected from the disbanded sol (8) The lakes in the region along the Huai River in Anhui and the Hoeishan Lake in Kiangsu to be marked out as reclamation districts. The amount of land to be reclaimed tentatively to be limited to 60,000) mow, and five now of the reclaimed land will be granted to each of the soldiers for Bs cultivation a8 ea pensation.
It is estimated that the monthly maintenance expenses per capita will be $8 and the total monthly ai propriation for the project will amount to $90,000.
The work of reclamation will completed within a year. minimum monthly product of ex mow of the reclaimed land estimated at $10.—Ta Chung.
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