Provincial Council announces that ten "shih" of soldiers have now arrived in this centre. A "shih" is very rarely up to its full strength of 12,500 men, but presumably this means that about £0,000 men have returned from the front and are quartered here. Public buildings being ineufficent, many of the men have been quartered in private houses and shops, and property in course of construction is filled to! capacity. The Chairman points out the necessity of paying the men who are to be sent out for brigand-suppression purposes and suggests 'a loan of $2,000,000 from the local banks in exchange for Treasury Notes. The banks have promised to consider the matter.
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