though it might be: Tore accurate' to fx the date that have been made, and that have been resolutely brushed aside, However high the position of the persons involved might be, and how. ever serious the of action might prove, authorities have steadfastly perform= ed their duties. The independence of the judiciary in Japan object lesson of which other countries in which if isa fiction might well take notice. 1¢ by nothing cite, constitutional government would be justified by its ability to] scientific expedition to Chinese Turkestan in 1930 is of special in terest. The expedition is due leave Peking in January, 1990, and to complete its work withi year. Dr. Li Shit ent leader of the National Government and the Kuomintang, repre: sented the National Association of Cultural Societies in the negotiations.
According to the terms of the agreement, both the Chinese and out various districts there, It is estimated that, up to date, over 5,000 well-to-do members of the gentry have been kidnapped by the bandits who are waiting for ransoms from the relatives of their victims.
Small bands of outlaws are ravage ing the country-side and are terrorizing the farmers who have been ped of all their earthly posses:
Many villages are reported French members of the expedition been sacked and burned to year later, when Tokyo beearn capita, Ferbane tas, it sand above the polite plane, Can Arsciatin and thone pinee the judiciary distinct from fare to be appointed by the Chines?
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Feudal system misuse of words to say that the this be said of any count even nominally cease ug an exitaconsvcationst form of leader of the expedition.
Chine The stricter auditing of accounts, Gen. Lu pointed with pride to what had een accomplished during his ad~ ministration of Hunan, tu defence of his wholesale removal of all officials, and their replacement his own men, be promised the immediate institution of examinations and a well-regulated civil servic The continuation of the very success: {ful programme of reconstruction of the formal government is promised. The entire land tax is to be set side for this purpose and special developments, tention is to.be paid to rural
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