JAPAN BEGINS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 11

JAPAN BEGINS

SETTLEMENT IN CHINA

According to. from Hsinking (Changchen), 2000 families of Japanese settlers will be sent to Kirin Province during the current fiscal'year. Aside from exploiting undeveloped resources of Kirin Province, these settlers "will be entrusted with the. task of maintaining peace and order in the region, and therefore tho mission assumes much importance from a national defence standpoint? says the "Christian Scionco Monitor." ' With a railway station-as the pivotal ee.ntre, these families of settlers will be divided into 40 groups, each group consisting of 50- families. The settlors will be recruited from all parts of Japan through prefectural authorities, who, through discretional recommendation of ex-servicemen and young men's associations, will be instructed to decide on tho eligibility of all applicants. - This year only tho heads of families selected will go to tho region to lay tho foundation; their families will follow next spring. The land for their settlement will be first bought at current prices by the East^ Asia Hypothec Bank out of tho 8.000,000 yen advanced by the South Manchuria Railway. Tho bank will sell the land to the settlers on a fivoyear instalment plan, af'tei- the settlers have worked the first five years without any financial obligations imposed on them. The funds for building homes and for buying agricultural implements will be defrayed by the South Manchuria Bailway as part of the expense- for guarding the railway line. Geographically, the region where,they arc scheduled to settle resembles* Japan closely, and abounds in minerals, forests, and livestock. It is expected that large timber and livestock companies will be franchisee! shortly in that region on condition that they will extend material aid to the settlers. As a practical measure, the proposed livestock corporation will arrangp for the settlers to tend herds of company sheep, fleece from which will be bought by the company owning tho herds. The Manchukuo Government and the South Manchuria Railway intend to dispatch in the near future approximately "fifty families of settlers to the goldfields of Jehol Province) Tiohling, and -Hunchung districts, as supervisors for gold-digging coolies. After the proposed Maneliii-Japanese Development Company and settlers' associations have- been formed, .'in extensive Modus of settlors will be encouraged.