General seliet work and measures! for ameliorating the lot of the un-{fortunate occupy a prominent place the news from Szechuen this week. According to.a project drawn up by the South West China Development ICo, and which has been submitted tothe Szechuen government. Luipo, Mapien and Pingshan are to be Fe-claimed and will serve as a refugee outlet, Ten mow of land. will be Jatloted to each person, according t¢ the scheme, which involves moving £0,000" people into the districts each year.
'Afler three years, it is estimated, the reclaimed areas' will be suitable for a settlement of 750,000 people. About '$1,000,000 will be: required to two years and ound ito every [cary through the project its com" estat "At the" mornest feces stem to'be"benging him any The" provincial government, now: financial"
one For he. "El ever is aso emkieg"suggtline for peer yeel with is of shawl with full instructions, free of charge The Ministry of Industry has sanc-poor Serene thoedt the aehemes which ives the etn in ing case a taste Sale git eon vineial Bank's S0-cent subsidiary ketweon Woshen snd Suits: che notes on the market have resulted in Ministry of Industry stipulates, how-Sheng velutance i accept the [Nett 94 el mes, he cou the course of business waneuctionm 2, Delon to China, hose, washers The notes are. now accepted. by. the 7Ust SPDIY, Beneral public without hesitation, permis-Rowever, ae "a vest, of prompt June 1, the sum of $1,000 Imeasures By the Sank, hich "po: which was borrowed bythe. provin: mitted holders of these notes to pres- ial government of Szechuen from ent them for payment for two days. bonkers in Chungking, was remitted At the same time, an explanation by in full. Shortly afterwards, $150,000 the Chamt of Commerce and the Was transferred to Chengiu. itor of he Came meee: Shine Chenaia ald much te vernes Begrar Problem 'The municipal area of Chungking 'The head erniees of the Central thas been cleared of three-Afths of its Bonk of China, Bank of China and 9000 beggars, by the police. The the Farmers' Bank' of China have B&éR=rs have been housed at received telegrams from the Gen- ere, ney are given food clothes, but two problems have arisen eralissimo's headquarters. in Chung king (at the request of the Szechuen owing to the inability of the place to. accommodate such a large crowd. Provincial government) ordering them to issue instructions to. their The first problem is, where to offices in Chungking to extend a more houses, and the second how to get medical ald for the many sick $4,000,000 loan to the provincial gov-among them. The Mayor of Chungernment. This amount is badly need-king is trying to get free medical fed to meet expenses of both an ad-treatment for them, and in connec ministrative and a military nature. tion with the frst problem, has The provincial government has Jauesied the Generalissimo's " Head-offered the postponed four months' quariers to move its troops out of and tax as security both for this fa, number of temples on' the other Joan and. for another proposed loan of a similar amount from Szechuen [side of the river, so that they can be housed in them. bankers, and in the meantime urging " the various counties to Nareotles Situation accelerate the collection of the title deed examination fees, which are The provincial government's famine investigation commission hag written needed to help it tite over its present dimeulty. loller from Liangshan to the effect "lawless elements" between that The local tax on kerosene and city and Tienkiang have been be-petrol in Szechuien is to be abolished, stirring themselves" in the manufac: says a telegram from Nanking, as a Awre of morphine. In the two dis Fesult of a long discussion between telets concerned, nearly 100,000 people the Ministry of Finance and the jarc now addicts of the deadly drug. Special "Finance Deputy and the Finance Commissioner of Szechuen.
Chungking, in the meanwhile, the 88 opium smoking shops have The city of Wushen is under been selling Yunnan opium. Now. martial law, with the whole popula these shops were originally intended tion in arms. iso Vu-tsen, the cater to the needs of the coolie notorious bandit leader, has declared doss of individuals, who could not hig intention of capturing the city, [afford to smoke at home, and as the with the result that the inhabitants Yunnan opium is mich more expen-re panic-stricken. Swift raids and sive than that produced in this prov-searches were conducted in the city ince, the coolie addicts have been by the local authorities, with the [unable to frequent the shops. result that over 20 suspects were tu order to meet this need, a com= eae: ie ener 1omise has been arrived at," Instead oftering the shops to sell Szechuen opium and therefore full the function' for which they were in-
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