Criticism by foreigners of con: tions prevailing in the interior, is sometimes discounted on the ground that foreigners are antipathetic to the new spirit of nationalism.
Therefore an essay written by a young Chinese student on local government is of the greater value, For obvious reasons, the name of the interior provin" ith held, Here is the essay:
The District Government The district government is a very important organ, for it is in immediate contact with the people, and its: affairs directly affect the advantage of the people. As indicated in Dr. Sun yat-sen's outline of Reconstruction of the Republic, now prevailing, the hsien, to form the unit of when self-government)
a fact, and the provincial gover ment is' only to do the work o ysmitting: orders from the tral Government to the hsiens with in its boundaries.
The di government of—consists of a magistrate's office with four bureaux, namely, Police, Fi ance, Education and' Reconstruetion. As we are now in the "Period of; Tutelage" for training the people for self-government, the district is divided into six wards, each ward hay: an office with an official in charge.
The work of the Bureaux, ana the District Offices, is all under the supervision and direction of the
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