Tye far-reaching proposals concerning District Autonomy and the system of Local Government, have been submitted at the National Givil Affairs Conference by~General Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to the capital yesterday.
his proposal Concerning, Disa scathing eri laws and ordinances issued in utter disregard of the practical. -eondi-
Nanking, Dec, 19.
The once formidable Communist bandit hordes which "for a. long period ravaged Central and Eastern Hupeh, Southern Honan and Western Anhwei had been crushed inthe: short space of four months. This fact is borne out by the de-submitted to the Chiang: Kai-sh The report covers the whole campaign and shows that success for Or the country, He. paints [crowned the intensive efforts, owing: out that a total of about 40 differ. to the effective It ent "Kinds of district autonomy Ployment of, political an: Fegulations, consisting of 967 aru- Measures, By taking the eons ae sappesed, to bein step. of endering the' provinces to force, in including almost countless effect thorough-going internal re-detailed" regulations "drawn up by form; of giving evidence of te various provincial government. habitation of ravaged areas, and 'Aza sull, the local - govern of educating the people along' lines ments, which have been called upon calculated to promote clean. livin fo enforce these laws, Save and clean thinking a measure of ignored them altogether or "sub-substantial confidence "and ¢o: Initted. fictitious reports of imagin-operation on the part of the inhabi-ary results having' been achieved. tants such General Ching' suaresis thereas has not previously existed. was established. fore that the Helen" (Distrie) To -promote the welfare of the should be divided" only. Into Chi county) or: Chen (owns) and that Inthe" "emanefpatel territory, people and: develop political reform
ipo the" uriis Below Gh of Chen, Committee of Part the system of Pac Chia (amitual guarantee) shall be adopted for the copie's self-defeneg against law of the campaign securing close Seraperation between the military, nisse proposed that in the banditcdevatiated areas. as wil by ud Party authorit Provinces in which no. definite Zults have 20 far been achieved in the promotion of district auto non Suppresi the programme abound be aunpen in-Chief"s Headquarters wa:
altogether until conditions "have nine department under it, Feturned to normal, The invasion of Man:
Pending the bromal tion of new churia, in addition to temporarily lis, the cha Ceognly) ofthe should stonpiig the campaign, naturally servo in' an auxiliary capacity, to continued to affect ity but despite the District 'Government and. the this. the. oper fons launched with director of the chu shall vigor tthe end of June linted from amongst local ive st ended in four months in' the leaders. complete, defeat of the" well In his proposal concerning, ganized forees under such notorio government administration, General Gommanist: bandit leaders a Chiang draws. attention' to the Shanon and' Kwang Chi-shun, delay caused in provin-And 40,000" ies; Ho Lune" ant whose a inhered 70,000" mi istration by the provi-Ho Lung and Government with 40,000 Law making it necessary for aland 20,000 rifles, and, Kung ost every matter to be referred Gung: Anown the Red Commanto. the Provincial Government Cor Chief, with 20,000 men and rifles, jon of reapanabiy.
tees. thereby, encouraging eva:
General that in protection, apioad ieeeor el Geet mountains, Takes and rivets "et wi
matters of a purely admi Chiang proposes nature, the Chairmen of the munism among the lower class Governments ought. to be over a. vase agen. und. orutiteee tre ate they may attend to such matters! bandits were—extremel Without gaine through the cumber- mabi, "used" aeroplanes cee elibevation at meetings. some procedure of discussion and denty' and' lounge He further points out that the strongholds established factories, establishment. of various workshops and_ school ious. Bureaux with, under the Hsien (District) Govern-arsenal at one town; avoided ment is absolutely uncalled for ing in the open wherever -pos it not only entails heavier expen: and were fe waured by the excessive and less efficiency, but, as direc. heat summer. Though they tors of there bureaux are" usual depended mostly on guerilla tactics appointed direct. by the Provine! iey could not avoid being rounted ivil Affairs Departments, their up by the pressure of the Govern. existence tends to hamper the Dis-the took foreer, and intensive ing authority ought to be centralized. trict "Magistrate in whom [ties the bandits. being place in. innumerable As almost every province com defeated "and routed, thousands prises "hundreds of Zaiens, {tis Seine killed, aid all their strange hardly possible for the. Provincial vernment authorities to exercise olde (among them Lungkong and being captured, "with effective supervision over the Dis-large quantities of military booty, trict Government. General. Chiang cluding two, woroplancs," nai therefore proposes that each. prox "Leni vince shall be divided. into a cer-the centre of Red activities, rand "Marx? at sing tain number" of Administrative two gunboats both called "Lenin Areas, in each of which there shall be a' Commissioner who is all] and other large! stores of milita iret supervision over the District Magistrates—Kuo and of the Soviet Union and to the cause of world peace.
—Reuter.
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