During the past year, this state ment said, four military districts were established at Nanking, Soochow, Hangchow and Pengpu, and paeification work was undertaken by the "government" with the assistance of the Japanese Army.
Formation of a marine corps also wi tentioned In the statement, The frst step taken in educational matters was to reform the primary school system to "uproot the antly Japanese teachings of the Kuomintang regime," the statement sal 'With this end In view provisional educational regulations were promulgated, classes were resumed in primary' schools, text-books were compiled and distributed, and primary teachers trained, During the next fiscal year the "government" plans to establish Nanking University, open colleges, normal schools and middle schools, prepare text-book for them, promote physical training for the' popu-Ince, and carry on educational policles' for the masses with the ald of moving pictures, Nanking Normal School To Be Founded Shanghai, Mar. 31.
A state normal schoo! will be established In Nanking by the Ministry of Education of the "Reformed Government" to train educators for the of model primary and middle schools to be opened in each helen in the three provinces under its jurisdic tion, It was reported yesterday.
The normal school will be establish by elevating the status of the temporary Teachers' Training Schoo! which was opened in Nanking last January.
Primary and middle schools in each hsien are considered necessary in order to train young Chinese to serve as future officials of the government. Sons and daughters of "Reformed Government" officials will be given the first opportunity to enter" the schools, The number of school children in Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhwei has reached 'a peak of 100,000, it Is said.
The statement recalled that the "Reformed Government," having decided in May of last year to estab-High the three provincial administrations of Kiangsi, Anhwei und Che-Kiang and the two special munfeipalties of Nanking and Shanghai. formed the Kiangsi Provincial Government on May 23, the Chekiang Prov Ineial Government on June 20, the Anhwei Provincial Government on July 23, the Nanking Municipal Government on April 24 and the Shanghai Municipal Government on April 28.
With: the restoration of peace and order all the districts and towns In the areas under Japanese occupation came under the jurisdiction of the "Reformed Government" in March this year, the statement said.
'A training institute for district oft dals, which was opened in October of last year, graduated about 100 prospective officials in the first class this month, the statement pointed out, To lighten the people's burdens and improve their welfare and ald the rehabilitation of local industries the "Reformed Government" abolished likin taxes, to offset the decrease in revenue of local self-governing bodies. Due to this action it granted monthly subsidies ranging from, $1,000,000 to $1,300,000 for four months' beginning in' February.
The "government" was planning to establish district hospitals in important cities and branch hospitals in other places, the statement concluded.—Domel.
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