Describing the former Chekiang provincial authorities' order for a 25 per cent, reduction in rents by farmers to their land-owners as one which tended to encourage "class struggle," the reorganized Chekiang Provincial Government issued a notice abolishing' the rent reduction. a dispatch from Hangchow stated yesterday, Since the rent reduction came into force, the new Chekiang administration stated in its notice, many of the land-owners, rather than losing quarter of their monthly income from the rent, had terminated the leases with the consequence that a great number of farmers in Chekiang had had no ground to till for a considerable time.
Frictions between land-owners and farmers were increased instead of being minimized by the rent reduction and this, the notice of the provincial authorities stated, tended to encourage "class struggle" betweenethe land-owners and farmers,
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