Among the early callers at City Hall on the first business day after the inauguration was a delegation representing the concern of the Nanking Rotary Club and Christian, bodies in Nanking over the enormous number of poor people from the sur-Founding country who have flocked to the city during recent week for food. or, employment The "soup kitchens" which were maintained in five centres in the city during the winter were closed. at about the middle of March. People were left to roam about the streets fand beg from every passer-by and at the doors.
The Commissioner of Police under the old government, Mr. Chen Cho, continues under the new one and is very much concerned to. get. these} country people back home. He has secured the ce-operation of Yangtze} River navigation lines to carry them free of charge so far as river trans portation can take them towards home. "But this of course is not quite enough. Some do not live along the Fiver
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