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China's Problems In Sikong
Chungking, To-day. Dr. Shi Lu, a member of the People's Political Council, who has just returned from a tour of inspection of Sikong Province, gave an account of his impressions at the press conference yesterday.
Sikong, it will be recalled, was formally inaugurat- ed on January 1 this year as an individual pro- vince consisting of the Betan frontier regions as well as the more fertile regions which for- merly belonged to Yunnan.
The latter districts were trans-in the Lamas. Their temples were ferred to the new province in order to be found in every settlement and to make it self-sufficient.
every male child except the eldest The total Sikong region is now sons were trained to be lamas. larger than that of Szechuen. Its The economic position of the population consists of only about priests was very strong, since prao- 3,000,000 made up of over a million tically all wills were made in their members of the Lolo tribe,, about favour and since they held such a and a million Kamings-Tibetan people controlling position in trade -and the rest were Chinese. commerce that most business pro-
fits accrued to them.
They provided the only simple education.
Dr. Shi declared that when com- munications were completed by next Spring it would be possible to travel from Chungking to Tachienlu
PROBLEM FOR FUTURE (Kangti), capital of the province,
The Chinese authorities would in four days by car.
No communications of any kind find it difficult to discovered Gay- at the moment beyond ernment-controlled substitutes, for existed Sienlu, which was situated on the there was a marked disinclination border. Travelling was possibly among the population to sent chil- the only in sedan chairs or on horse-dreff to Government schools; back.
parents often engaged Chinese boy who, for a small sum, attended school instead of their own child.
GOLD FINDS Touching on the question of gold deposits which were said to be found in abundance in the new province, Dr. Shi stated that gold-dust was found all over the province.
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Another obstacle to the modern- isation of the province
was the problem of fand possessions. The inhabitants were very conservative The Lidi district was the most and simply followed the conven- fertile region of all China and had tions of their forefathers, without more natural resources than any paying much heed to legal other part of the country.
Settlements west of Tachienlu The result was that in most cases were mostly at an altitude of over the actual ownership of an estate 4,000 metres. The fertility of the was difficult to ascertain. soil, accordingly, was not very great and the peoples inhabiting the region were very primitive.
formulas.
The Government would, however, tackle this question also.
The first aim in view, though, was When travelling, it was necessary the construction of a system of to carry all provisions, for the sole lines of communication. Only when Szechuen, food of the population consisted of connection existed with
a mixture of roughly-ground wheat, Yunnan and Chinghai would it be and water.
possible to open up the province and tackle successfully the individual problems.Trans-Ocean.
AUTHORITY IN LAMAS Touching on the administrative tasks facing the Chinese authorities of the province, Dr. Shi said that at present all authority was vested
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Total expenditure, less selfbalanc- ing items, is £374,442,951, compar- ed with £841,655,188 at the corres- of ponding date 1938.--British Wireless.
HORE-BELISHA CRITICISED
London, To-day.
The absence from England of Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secre tary for War, during the great air manoeuvres, has evoked an attack by the "Daily Herald" this morning. Belisha, the paper says, for the country's
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