There is practically no government beyond the'eity, and so the country. side is rife banditry. Good citizens must contribute fo local Uualts for protection, and when these units become too oppressive and get about whatever they can, they move along to another community and vit~ tually rob them of all they can get.
very many cases people have to leave their homes and sleep In hiding lest they be taken off and demands made for their release, One would surely welcome a period of order and peace throughout the land. But the people are" wonderful their endurance and in their recovery from loss. After all is said. these people have virtues and a future, Jewish Settlement in China Proposed Chungking, Mar. 10.
The Chinese Government is ported to be giving serious attention the proposal for an asylum in China "for Jewish re The question of locality has not yet been decided.
'Dr. Hi. H, Kung, President of the Executive 'Yuan and, concurrently, Minister of Finance, originally proposed to establish a' Jewish seitlement on Hainan Island, but. the Proposal had to be abandoned in view of the present Japanese mili. tary operations on the island.
The south-west provinces Yunnan, Kweichow, " Sikong and Szechuen have been suggested.—Reuter. to read about, but extremely unpleasant to experience in one's own T asked Mfr. Poletti whether ho could suggest any other "reason for the unique behaviour of Chinese bandits in returning. the ransom. money. He shrugged his shoulders, and then suggested that perhaps the threats or blandishments of the Japanese and Italian negotiators might have caused the change heart. That might just possibly account for his being released unharmed, but is surely no explanation for the return of ransom money that was already pald to them.
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