Canton, Oct. 31.
More than $3,000,000 Canton cur= rency, has been loaned out to farmers {for general production In 28 districts in Kwangtung province following the inauguration of the "emergency food Programme six months ago under the supervision of Dr, D. ¥. Lin, Direc-lor of the Bureau of Agéiculture and Forestry. Since hostilities broke out in Shanghai arrangements have been made with the local banks for $1,800,000 to be used for loans for food production.
Dr, Lin disclosed that 100 technical men have been gent out to these districts to direct the distribution of the loans and to help the farmers purchase suffleiont seeds and fertilizers for - winter cultivation, 'This reassuring message was brought here yesterday by Mr. 'Chang Yuan-fu, representative in Nanking of the Sinkiang Provincial Government, upon his arrival from Tihwa where he had spent his two-weeks' leave from the capital.
With "this financial "and technical assistance it is hope that the farmers can produce more food for the pro-vinea during this emergency period.
Land Regulation A. special emergency land regula tion, Dr. Lin added, is now being Mr. Chang flew here yesterday from Sian, "He was accompanied by
of the "Life" weekly magazine in Tu. formerly editor Now that the administration throughout Sinkiang has been uni fied under General Shang Shih-tsai, considerable reconstruction has been under way, mainly in the construe~ tion of roads and the propagation of education, Mr. Chang said.
The om cial wilt leave for Nanking shortly to report his ridings Sinkiang to the National Government—Central News.
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