Ministry Instructs Banks to Give Period of Grace Kashing, Sept. 30.
Formers are saying that in spite of late heat, early cold and storms between, the rice is after all better than expected, While quality and price are low, yet rice is rice and food is. food.
All schools are practically full of students, Strleter examinations excluded many applicants, who are trying to make up deficiencies in special classes, hoping to enter next. term. Many boys who went from Higher Primary or Junior High into apprentice positions are finding few vacancies on account of the depression. Some fof these are also taking special course in Chinese rot Classical, but of the National or cur= ent style along with practical mathe-
The Influx of more than 10,000 soldiers {2 a subject of much interest, Sifting the rumours, it seems that having driven out the Communist armies from Kiangsi Province, the soldiers not needed at other fronts fare sent Into Chekiang to rest and Feorganize, Lurid imaginations dwell on the pos sibility of a Japanese invasion or an attempt to induce Chekiang to separate from Nanking and Join a Southern Confederation. In times of dullness, ears are open to anything fantastic, The new land survey, halted for lack of funds, has resumed operations.
Two foreigners, one said to be a Russian, the other a Pole, made them~ selves unpopular by following persistently a foreign resident demand ing money and threatening some Chinese women whose men-folk were not at home. They disappeared when police were summoned, Soir-respect= Ing foreigners are usually treated politely in this city, but undesirables begging for trouble, it they start ind the notes were not accepted by: any bank for deposit accounts. The cash reserve fund of the Bank of Szechuen has been appropriated for reconstruction work.
Business in fire insurance here has declined somewhat, and this has been attributed to the efficient installation of effective fire preventive equipment Competition has accordingly become so Keen that both the foreign and the Chinese insurance agencies have materially reduced their pre mlums. \"Re-organization of the sing-song aiels continues, though not quite according to pian. Inasmuch as the Imajority of the proprietors have refused to ce-operate—and incidentally have fled—the local authorities have ordered the girls to report themselves! for registration, and considerably over two-thirds have come forward and availed themselves of the opportunity to branch out into business fon their own with a corresponding, Increase in earnings.
sum of $10,000 has been appropriated by the Ministry of Finance 'Out of the American Returned Boxer Indemnity Fund, and this will be {devoted towards the maintenance and upkeep of the province's publi schools. A reduction in students' tuition fees to $10 a term has been announced by the recently appointed President of the University of Szechuen, Chengtu.
Tu order {9 meet the demand for {skilled labour, the Szechuen Publis|i Roads Administration is completing arrangements for the opening of 3 Jschool for training men both in the trafic and the mechanical departments of the Administration. It is proposed to start with 200 students.
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