Following is a summary of some of the suggestions submitted by the From the Canton Read Unior As robbers are mostly recruited from disbanded soldiers and unemployed loafers, as well as members of the Ts'ingpang, the fundamental plan would be to give all these work, which requires a large amount of money and would prove a slow task. To meet the urgency of the situation, the Settlement authorities. should ce-operate with the Chinese officials in preventing the disbandment of provincial troops at Shang-hal, that is, forbidding them to land it shipped here—The funiefpal Council should take a census of all unemployed persons and provide factories to give them work. This is necessarily slow work, but the ultimate benefit must be great—Foreign and Chinese official should'
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