Hu Pin-chih has left us for Peking. There is a report abroad that his friends at the capital are interesting themselves to secure his reappointment to Shansi. The report is probably baseless since Wang Chih-chun has already been gazetted to the Governorship. Our lite Governor certainly wished to introduce reforms. The task ws not an easy one. Those whom he sought to help were the very first to resent the changes he inaugurated. At their introduction the attempted reforms were lacking in the spring and go which would have inspired confidence. "Ifonly a capable Europea administrator could be settled at exch Provincial capital to advise the Governor concerning reform schemes, measures would halt less and not so often court defeat. Hesitation arising from want of knowledge begets a distrust which is fatal to the best of reforms,
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