Shanghai, Aug. 5.
Bound by tradition, the average Chinese farmer of the Yangtze delia spends more than he earns on weddings, burials and religious obser-vanees, a survey of farming villages by. the South" Manchuria" Railway Company has revealed, the "Tarik Shimpo™ reported yesterday.
Impoverished by such drains on his" income, many a farmer has abandoned agriculture for work in industrial enterprises, according the survey. The annual income of a farmer in the area between here and Nanking was estimated at $00 to $90, his average plot of tand at 7 mow. Cereals obtainable from one mow do not exceed 71s Bushels, the report said 'The results of the survey, carried out by SMR. experts in order' to obtain data the setting up of operative farming and credit unions, Were disclosed on Thursday at a meeting of officials of the Shanghai Special "Municipality, the South Manchuria Railway "Company. and other interested persons, Hankow Released Hankow, Aug. 5.
Kotar Singh, the British Indian who was abducted from the Asiatic Petroleum Company's Installation a fortnight ago by a band of Chinese, hho been released, Tu an "interview, the Indian said that, afler he was' abducted, he was detained at various places in the vicinity of the installation, and was blindfolded each time he was moved.
He was periodically questioned. persons wearing Chinese clothes, and wi asked to write and sign a confession that the Chinese and British employees of the Asiatic Petroleum Company dealt in munitions on behalf of the" Chinese.
he refusea.
"At 10 mon August 2, the Tne an contlined, with 9 sack ied over shead and is arms bound he. Was {aken by" car to 9" flay where he Was told he would' be executed it he ust then, he declared, 9 second car drove: tp and his captors. de-amped, The newcomers called out name ana claimed to have saved his fe. He was taken fo a Japanese Eenderinete "ston "where he Wat Well treated and sent by car to the
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