The Amoy Municipal Government sent one miserable crowd of 700 to stay in a row of huge new concrete tenements that have long been empty. Slowly they will be returned to their villages in the country. The lenient policy of the late Mayor, who allowed Formosans to leave with. their household goods, the stock from their business premises, and their money, stands out in generous contrast to the measures across the straits. It is said that these returned Formosans are still segregated in concentration camps and have not been allowed
Mayor was appointed an honor: to return to their homes. Peed member of the Amoy Rotary Club, attended the last meeting and spoke 10 the meeting explaining his future policy. He seems a man of robust character. The new Mayor was financial] advisor to the Government at Foochow before he came here. He has travelled extensively in Europe and visited, as he said, more than eleven countries, studying their economic conditions. He will need all his knowledge to remedy the present local conditions. The military now are in full power and with their drastic arrangements the little trade that was left has vanished. They guard all the landing steps in the harbour, search every box and parcel, scrutinize the passport of every one who comes or goes to Kulangsu.
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