Raising Funds for Army Maintenance Canton, May 28.
As funds are urgently needed to maintain the army, civil officials and other Government employees who receive salaries of more than $100 per month will have them reduced from 10 to 35 per cent. All posts regarded as sinecures are to be abolished.
At the beginning of May, the Kuangtung Provincial Government suspended all payments for a period fof two weeks, having found it difficult to secure funds from the Department of Finance. 'The Com-Banacpac, who in' \issioner jane, Mr.
Director of Publicity and political <lsred, had decided training of the Ist Group Army, is very busy raising money for military expenses, It is Learned that the military Jexpenditure totals about $7,000,000, Jo month while the income amounts to about $6,000,000. 'The troops of the Ist Group Army have been paid only up to the end of March, although previously' they were always paid promptly.
Gen, Feng Cho-man, the former
because he was unable to Commissioner of Finance, sea fends meet. "His successor Mr. Chu Pang-pao, has several plans for raising funds and hopes to be suecessful. He hax somewhat opti promised to bring the delated government bank notes value. The Kuangtung I Bank has circulated new bank-notes in place of the depreciate fed ones, but little interest is shown in them. At present most business transacted with "hard "silver.
There is a_ possibility that the Kuangtung Treasury may grant $200,000 a month tow expenses of the 10th, Route Army.
he local military has import large consignment of anti-aircraft guns "from Europe. beer. installed in the headquarters of the 1st Group Army, the Tai Sha Tau and Shao and other points liable to attack, Since the air force came under the control of the military, Gen. Huang Kwang-jui, the new commandant, has beer reorganizing it. Orders for aeroplanes have been placed with leading firms in the United States and the local workshops are turning. out, two planes with imported engines—Reuter.
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