Second Section
Hongkong Telegraph.
Magazine Features
Photos by New China News Photo
Service.
The workers doing physical ex- ercises during their rest period, This is an important part of the
daily programme.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1941.
REHABILITATION
SCHEME FOR
CHINA'S SOLDIERS' FAMILIES
Simple but adequate food is provided, and the workers eat in a communal hall,...
Cloth being woven. The looms employed are not exactly up to date, but sorve the purpose well.
The pictures here depict some of the activities at the industrial centre estab. lished by the Chinese Government in Kwangsi Province, where the wives and children of soldiers killed or wounded are taught various crafts and trades to rehabilitate their normal livelihood. The scheme has so far been very successful, and more than one thousand women and The girls are now working at the centre. activities include sewing, knitting, weaving and dyeing, the articles manufactured being mostly bought by the Government for use of soldiers at the front.
A soldier's daughter making uniforms..
Women spinning yarn for the Weavers.
sowing class hard at work.
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