Oct, 15, Dr. Stampar's report on the progress of the rural welfare centres in Kiangsi is encouraging. The full text of the report is not available but the extracts published by the semi-oficial Kuo Min News Agency ive good proof that the interesting experiment launched in that prov= ince is developing on sound Jines.
doubt Dr. Stampar found ocasian to make valuable suggestions for improvement and it will be noted that he is impressed by the need for greater ce-ordination of the various activities reviewed. It will be recalled that South Kiangsi was for two years administered by a Soviet Government with its headquarters at Juilin until Gerteral Chiang Kai-shek effected the dis~ lodgment of the Red Armies and started them on their Odyssey through Hunan, Kweichow, Yunnan, and Szechuen to Kansu and beyond, In tackling the suppression of this [Communist rule General Chiang Kai-shek realized that he had more than a military problem in hand. The Reds had uprooted whatever there had been of ordered government and had established their own oppressive but, in some respects, fective system which ostensibly was designed to appeal to the landless Peasant and over-taxed farmer. It driving out the Reds it became necessary for the Government to consider urgently the need for re~ habilitating the area they evacuated—otherwise the people would feel that tyranny had been eliminated lonly to leave desolation and despair behind. Behind his own forces therefore General Chiang Kai-shek prepared an organization to take up the work of reclaiming the recaptured territory. From that sage' decision the rural welfare work in. Kiangsi took its rise.
The National Economic Council was called upon to ce-operate in this work. As the result of a survey by its experts recommenda: tions were made and the Government made suitable grants for agricultural research work, public health, education and ce-operative societies. A scheme was drawn up for the establishment of ten rural welfare centres. The preliminary investigations were actually made before the Red Armies had been driven out so that when the head Joffice of the Rural Welfare Centres was formally established at Nanchang on March 16 of the present year, five months after the re-feature of Juikin, the organization was able to carry its labours ef-{fectively into the reclamation area. A special type of education was [devised for the recovered territory fon the basis of schools for 100 families each, good use thus being made of the fundamental system on which Chinese society rests. The Ca-operative Society movement had factually started in Kiangsi as the outcome of Flood Relief operations 1931. Tis further development under the auspices of Nanchang has been rapld—too rapid perhaps for
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