because it is probably the best contribution towards the effective resettlement of the districts from which the Chinese have fled, and to which they would be only 100 willing to return if they considered it safe to do so. The desire to got back to their farms in the Hungjao area during recent weeks has been such that those who had evacuated i were running grave risks nightly in passing through the barbed wire barricades, clear proof of their anxiety to get back to their farms. Foreign residents have equally been desirous of returning 10 their properties, and it is to be anticipated that they will speedily put their houses into repair and resume the delightful life of which they have been deprived for so log. It will even encourage the writer of the Country Diary, because it will enable him to go further odeld in that research which provides such delightful reading three times a week. But the important oint Is that the presence of foreigners in that istrict will encourage the Chinese, and, those from other areas find that their confreres the western areas are able to live peacefully under Japanese control. the desire to return their own farms will be fortified with that confidence given them by the example which Hungjao should provide. It is obvious that the resettlement of the area north of Shanghai, where so much fighting took place, may still prove a matter of time, but as the Chinese Fealize they can live there in safety the return will be accelerated, and it is reasonable to hope hat the time is not far distant when the land will again be in full bearing to the alleviation ut Shanghai's alimentary anxieties, 'There Sppcars i have been some hitch in the matter yesterday, and quite a number of people desiring fo return' to the Hungjao district were disap-Pointed, It" is hoped that this will soon' be. adjusted.
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