Speaking at the concluding ses sion of the First Internal Affairs Conference yesterday, President [Chiang Kai-shek dealt at length px the importance of adequate revehus for the district governments, with= out which, the President declared, fio Local government could be cfc cient.
"The present disorganized state Jof our police system in most dise tricts is due largely to financial stringency;" he said, "the first thing for us to cly at present is to divert '0 constructive channels revenue hitherto wasted or mis appropriated. Secondly, we must Jconsider the question of a trained personnel. If we can make good fuse of our revenue and produce a trained personnel our administration will soon improve us ways." hat the solu problem lay in readjustment of the land tax. "If we can effect a prow per registration of real property in the country our revenue will be considerably increased, Many countricw Ihave increased their revenue by laying stress on such a measure. The district magistrate should therefore pay particular attention to the land question in view of his close con tact with the people and his me timate knowledge of what they hold in the way of real property," ha aid—Kuo Min, Tue Anhui provincial authorities have confiscated the huge properties of Gon, Ma Lion-cha, the former Tuchun, and offered them for sale, reports the vernacular pross.
Japanese marines are reported by the Chinese papers to have landed at Foochow a couple of days ago and arrested a number of leading members of the Anti-Japanese Boycott Committee, The usual protests are being made, Gex. Yen Hskshan has devised plan' by which employment. will Uffered to his disbanded officers and hus established a coal 1 factory in connection with between the and the Reconstruction Council over the control of the wireless stations, the latter claiming that power of eon-vested in it and Chinotungpu saying that wire Deine a means of communication, should be under the Communications Ministry.
Tr is understood that Gen, Pei CChunsshsi, former Garrison Com missioner of Shanghai, who is, Director-General of Operations, for the Fourth Army Group, fs making rangements with "ut wanghai and Canton to establish ie sevice betwcun Peking and Canton." Should. this succeed, further services. will he started' from Peking t9 Mukden," Sinkiang and Urea.
Ix the course of a statement made to members of the Chinese press, a Pieentleman who has just returned from the famine areas of north China said that, in Shansi Province alone, 4,000,000 persons wore starying as a result of the drought, the Tccust pest and the civil wars. Already thousands had died and many were eating the roots of trees, Children had been gold at a couple of dollars each to prevent them Porting out in a leading article that victory in international negotiations, like victory at the polls in inal "political campaign, often entails quite serious responsibil fs, the "North China Star" says:—"The National Government has now established and assumed control of its frontier tariff, and it should now assume absolute control of, and abolish, at least as far as foreign goods are concerned, its interior tariff barriers. The foreigners have agreed to pay the price! and it is. up to the Chinese to deliver tha
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