The Central Government is _apparently fully aware of the problem, all sorts of persons with high and mighty titles have been appointed to. tackle it, At Chuhslen, just over the Chekiang border, is" a Bandit Suppression Commissioner "for" the Four Provinces, General Chang Fa-kuei, the former commander of the famous "Ironsides Division." while at Chienou is another, local, Bandit Suppression Commissioner, General Chiang Ting-wen, With litle effect, however; for banditry, if anything. more rom pont in the vicinity their headquarters than anywhere else, Indeed the appointment of BS.C's seems fo me to be on a par with sending naval and military' men to Disarmament Conferences" and, for same reasons, scarcely lain' the desired ené idlers of the regul are constantly changing and to whom bandit. suppression Is merely a side line, the best peop!
The Foochow authorities told me that they recognized this, and. that ow measures were being devised, White the military were still in occupation of a district an enforced census und registration of the whole population was to be carried out and when the troops were withdrawn, a permanent gendarmerie force was' to {ake charge. This is probably about the best measure, but 10 what extent will be really carried out, is of course another question.
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