well as the elements of military Knowledge. Each man is taught how to handle and care for a rifle, even though in practice there ate. not enough rifles to go round the whole population and very far from enough. ammunition to make the training effective in an emergency. This training lasts for four months and is carried out in the neighbourhood where the recruit resides, The Emergency Corps militia men are called for training and drill once year on a proclamation issued from the Headquarters of the County Military Commander, This training 1s: protracted over a period of four years. In addition to the subjects of Study applied in the case of the Regular Corps, the Emergency Corps algo receives training in the arts of antiaalr raid and anti-gas defences, Units of the Reserve Corps are grouped into three each, under the command of one training oticer and two assistant training officers. The training season for the urban locally tes is between March and. August and for the suburban localities, -between September and the following March, "Each training form lasts two to three months; the daily session is two to three hours,, till the quota of 180 hours of training 1s made up, According to statistics complied by the Political Tutelage Bureau of the Provincial Government, militia men who have completed: the prescribed taining up to last June, numbered 818,287 for the whole province, 'Training for the Public Employees' Corps 1s approximately identical to that for the training of the Reserve Corps, except that. subjects in. the curricula are more advanced, Com manders of military units. stationed at the respective Tocaliles serve raining ernieers fon these Corps, About 10,000 have completed training in these Corps, The effect of these measures has been good in more than one Kwangst province has been very largely rid of bandits, There saying thas "Ie there are mountains there must be caves, there are caves there must be bandits." And this saying Was all too true, The people of the province had come to look upon the evil of banditry with resignation, "There seemed to be no way to free themselves from it, "The new militia, system has provided a solution of the problem, and to-day there are few bandits to be found in the length and breadth of the territory.
The experiment "isan interesting tone. Its inconvenienees—the Inter ference with the domestic Kwangsi citizens, the cutting into the earning time of peasants who have 40 Work nearly twenty-four hours a day order to get enough to live on, the potential dangers of teaching a people accustomed to the hardships of an Uunfertile sell the use of fire-arms by which they may' intimidate their neighbours—all these and other evils which can be cited may easily be counterbalanced by the good done in regimenting a population which has been unused to discipline and teaching it the rudiments of modern thought, both social and. political, Kiwangsi should by nature be a weak province; in practice it 1s a province which must be seriously taken Into consideration in all national polities, In comparison with Kwangtung, It is oer in resources; but in power and influence it overshadows its more wealthy neighbour, of the same colour so that one could hot tell where bay left off and sky began we flow smoothly and steadily {into the at countryside of Shanghai, then zoomed down over the Whang.
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