By order of the mayor, the city of Jukgo'has rid itself of' the small papers that have of late disturbed the pence of the business community by hele. slanderous articles. Under threat of having such articles appear people were prested for money. Some Such articles found their way even into Shanghai Chinese papers and twere shown to local people to make Their requests for money the more tifective" At prevent four Chinese daly papers supply the Jukao people with news, The circulation is. sill mall, but each paper represents diferent activities. "With 20. small feireulation as these papers have, the focal pense eabsbiy no dividend paying affair, "but it" supplies the People with much needed news and forms a geod medium of advertise ment. One of the papers, we notice, thas a daily article on. Christianity which fs. weltten, undoubtedly, a8 part of the newspaper evangelism programme of the mission operating In this section.
In {ts memorandum to the judicial authorities, it is understood that the Sinkiang "Reconstruction Planning Committee will also. recommend the establishment of a branch court of the Sinkiang Provincial High Court tata suitable location, and of more district courts in various parts of Sinkiang.
In training judicial officials for Sinkiang, special attention should be} paid to the study of the Mohammedan Tanguage and the Mohammedan cus tomary law. Where the Mohammed code does not conflict with the laws the Republic, it should be enforced in the courts of Sinkiang, Where] conflict does exist, the Mohammedan fede may be followed for the time being. Efforts should however be made to elucidate the laws of the country to the people of Sinkiang with a view to Chinese law eventual replacing the Mohammedan code now in foree—Kuo Min.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.