Hunan, beginning with Feb ruary, the Provincial" Government was forced to suspend its refugee relief payments of 10 cents dally because of the crushing burden on the Warstaxed popitlace. In the southwestern part of the province this left some 7,000 homeless people, 5,000 of whom were women and" children, with no place to turn for existence. Some tried to scatter into the country and beg from the farmers, some tried to stay in the towns and villages they could, and tum to their origi though those homes are in occupied territory. As far as the farmers were concerned, however, the countiyside has been overrun with begars and bandits, 'Under the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives in south-west Hunan some 200 of these unfortunates were rapidly organized into small indus-{til units to support themselves and at the same time to All the overwhelming demand for goods in that' area, The Director of the South-
West Headquarters for the Chinese Industrial Ca-operatives states that these 200 workers are now directly supporting 300 additional people who fare dependent on them for life.
Loan to be Repaid At first the refugee ce-operatives were faced with almost certain loss of their original toan simply because the workers had nothing in the way of tools or equipment, and thus most of the money borrowed had to be taken from the amount designed for buying raw materials. However, the Hsien administration leaped to' the Fescue and contributed $300 to keep the work alloat. "Although this collection of 200 refugees has been fat work under the Chinese Industrial Ca-operatives for less than two months, the original loan and its interest seem in a fair way to be com pletely repaid soon.
After the terrible Changsha fire, thousands and thousands of workers scattered into the country and soon found themselves destitute. The industrial ce-operatives are looking for these men and women, and when the necessary funds come in, these workers will be financed to return {to Changsha to dig up the valuable snail, light machinery now buried, move it and themselves to safer places, and then begin anew In their Fespective trades. At all costs. the authorities wish to keep these skilled men from drifting back into. any reas that might possibly be seized and exploited to the advantage of the Invaders. "Hence the mobile Chinese Industrial Ca-operatives. are proving valuable in being able to move with the workers as they are forced to refugee 10 safer parts.
'The machine to be used in' the (Chungking-Hami service will be a trlmotored plane, with accommodation for 15-passengers.
The, ill-fated "Communications No. 1," which crashed in West Kweichow, was the plane which made the survey fight from Chungking to Nami on February 20—Reuter.
Tue population of Chungking totals over 600,000 Chinese, fol ing. revent evacuation measures. enforced by the Chinese authorities, says 9 Chungking message. Theatres, feb houses and public amusement centres in Chungking have remained closed. by order of the Chinese Currency Committee to Be Established Chungking, Mar. 26."
Chinese reports state" that an' Anglo-Chinese Currency Stabilization Fund Committee will be established in Hongkong carly next month.
The reports add that a change has! been made in the personnel of the Chinese members of the Committee. +Mr. Li Tao-nan, it is stated, will replace Mr. Tang Shou-min as the the of Communications Tepresentative on the Committee of
Reuter.
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