The Finance Commissioner of Szechuan held @ conference with Dr. H-H. Kung in Nanking recently and hho yesterday revealed the fact that the conference covered various local Questions, such as the Chungking Local. Bank, the old bonds and military expenditure.
The fubsi"y of $800,000 a month towards the military expenses of the province has been extended toa period of six months. The Central Government is in favour of simplitying the duty payment system and also is endorsing the principle of collecting land tax once a year, "The Comininist situation is still obscure, The Shensi armies are massing on the south frontier of that province to check the advance of the Communists in that area and heavy fighting is expected "The construction of a highway leading from Szechuan to Kueichow was taken in hand on February 26 when the opening ceremony was attended by a number of civil and: military officials. The first section fof the road is from Chungking to Chikiang via Kiangtsin, a distance of 163 kilometres. The work was Initiated on that day by some 2,000 labourers, half of them being either soldiers or militiamen, "A. large. mail-plane, named "chvangehou", arrived at Chungking on February 23. It was sent by the, Chinese Aviation Company to cope with the ever-growing amount of mail and rae along the Chungking-Chengtu line. It is un~ derstood that, in ease of necessity, an additional round trip between two places will be made each week.
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