Despite all the promises to the contrary, both from Honanfu and Peking, Feng Vu-hsiang. the hend of the 11th Division, and for seme few months the "only Christiaa Governor" in China, hes been removed from the province. He left very quietly last night about nine o'siock, ant to-morrow his success Chang Fulai, who has been wa ing at Chengchow for a month, will come to take his place. It is said that the President has saved his face by refusing the use of the name "Tuchun," as Chang is to be called "Tu Li." The change of name will, however, matter not one single iota, as he is coming int? the capital city to take over the reins of military government.
The departure of the 1th Division men was a real object lesson. For several days, and nights, too, they have been removing their impediment from the various barracks to the railway and it was they who did it, and not impressed, coolies, as in former military departures. Long lines of men, pearing their things either on {their backs. or on kangs tween two men, would march in line away from the barracks, and pack again in the same order, rarely breaking rank. So many have remarked on this that it but proves it is the very great.exception, and no rule at all.
The local papers. are bitter against the powers that he and freely comment on the way the expressed opinions of the noble of Honan have been float-d. Unfortunately. whether deserved not, the incoming Goverror 18 bringing with him anything pnt enviable reputation. It is freely stated that the former inevmbent of the office. Chao Tib, was in al thines a better man_ than the Jovernor soon to be. His name is Chang Fou-lai, and the significance of the name is that Happiness coming." Those who have the temerity say that it should be Chang Hwob-lai, which chenges the "happiness" to misery." It ts devoutly to be honed that these eaimictic forebodings may soon phe discounted in & bannv realization of continued good conditions.
For sch a short tenure of office, Feng Vu-hsiong certainly has left a very happy'memory in the minds of the people of this part of the province, and surely this good impression must be the fact all through that portion of the province where his influence has been felt. That, as you have learned from despatches, is largely in the southeast of the province. he m€r-chants and the two that seem to Jose in any change of government—seem keenly removal of Feng. There was con- present to unload, in view of the s.derable talk of some great demonstration to protest against his going: this, however, did not materialize. "The Government school students cid meet, and marched to the yamen and the Yenwuting in protest. The local papers, however, record these feelings pretty accurately when they liken Feng:9 Yoh Wu-mu, who I'ved in the north of Honan some 800 years ago. Though Yoh was a military man, he was a man of such just and virtuous principles that he was loved by all the people. His ver' virtues, however, caused him to be hated by enemies in.the court. These people would gladly have killed Yoh, but having no other weapons to carry through their plan they went to the Emperor and pleaded with him that, for the welfare of the state, he should remove Yoh from Honan to the northern marches. With no other than thoughts of the country's good, the Fmperor put out the mandate for Ych's removal to the north. When the Honan people heard of this mandate they would have forcibly kept Yoh in the province. In fact, they came in crowds and surrounded his hors to impede his movements, and with weeping implore] him not to leave.
could not bet obey his superiors, and when he reached his new district it was not long before he met his death. When h: s enemies stripped his clothing from his body they found on his back, burned in the flesh, the four characters, "Ching hsin pao kei"—"A faithful heart will preserve the country."
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