For more than two months the epidemic' of cholera' raged and though there are no accurate statis-ties cither official or private it is a well known fact that in the city' of Nanchang With about 250,000 People, there is a score of the unfortunate who die of the disease daily. In spite of the fact that the central and provincial government authorities have provided free anti-cholera inoculations, the epi-domic has not shown any signs of decreasing. On the contrary it is spreading Very, quickly in' the
of the cholera horror, monigitis is be-Reighbouting district. In the midst coming common among children. The weather in Nanchang this year in quite strange, extremely hot in the day time and rather cool night. "For more than two months there has not been a drop of raia. Various superstitious practices have been performed but without result. Te ig no doubt the dragon king's year especially for the farmers who fre needing rain very badly. There a drought in. Kiangsi and there is a very little hope of getting the second crop of rice this year.
From the "commissioner of the Reconsstruction Bureau it is reli ably learned that both the Central and Provincial Government authorities have recently had a conference at which the light railway construction programme in Kiangsi was carefully drawn, up chiefly for, the purpose of facilitating the work of Supressing the communist bandits. 'They all have realized that the hope of completely aradienting the communists in Kinngsi, cannot terialize without good' communica tions and' so. the following. three main Hine are fo, ba, immediately constructed; namely, the Nanchang Changsha Line through Pinghsiang, the famous coal district in. western Kiangsi, This line is to be a 60 Qh, light railway and will around $20,000,000 according to the estimates; the Nanchang-Foochow Line through Lin-chuan, Nancheng, Lrehuan, Kuang-tsi, and Yen-ping districts," It will be' 60 pounds also land. its estimation 1s. $60,000,000 This line when completed will constitute the of modern transportation the seaboard of Fukien to Central China. The Nanchang-Yushan Line or Kiangsi-Chekiang Line by. way of Chingsien, Tunghsiang, Kueil and Shangshuo in the eastern part of the province. In Yushan it links bp with the Hangchow-Yushan Li This line will be of 38 1b. rails and its estimated cost is $10, These lines of light railw
mercial as well as a military value completed, will have a and the people in Kiangsi are quite eager to see that the work of thes Tines is started.
Since the reorganization of the rovineial government last winter, it, Cheng Kien-hsin, formerly a professor at the Wahdn University, become Commissioner of Edu-_ cation, In the first term of the scholastic year he was careful not to make any radical changes in the administration of the government middle schools. But when the schools wore closed for the sum Vacation and the principals there! were to be re-appointed for the fall term in accordance with regulations, he changed the principals of nine government middle schools without. Riving sufficient reasons. - Furthermore the majority of the new appaiutees are his own men—either friends or relatives. This constitutes the main cause for the record breaking strike of teachers and students in Kiangsi's middle schools. Every means, such sending. petitions, have ed by the teachers and students force the commissioner to cancel his appointments. "Now the students backed up by their former teachers blockading new principals' are even adopting the method entrance to the school-buildings.by_ force. For instance, Mr." 'Chen 'Chuang-lu, the new principal of the government First' Middle School, has been driven. out twice within two days—-August 9 and 10—by the students when he and his followers attempted to obtain entrance and take over the administration. He had rather a narrow escape from being beaten, ranaging vector of he shangha enaging' director of the Nanking and Shanghal-Hangehow-Ningpo' Railways and at one time director of the Kiangnan "Arsenal, chas been mentioned for the post of director of the Government Gene tral Mine of Shanghai to sue seed fs. Hsi Chi-ching, who hes vesign-
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