From Our Own Correspondent Changsha, July 16.
I have had the opportunity of
hsiang which may be of interest to an interview with er Feng those who have not understood the reason that led him to leave Changteh. The reason the general gave me was a very soldierlike reason: "I received my order to leave Changteh from the President, and I obeyed it." It would be dificult for the most exacting critic to quarrel with such a response to such an order. I found the general not at all averse from enlarging on the wisdow shown in the orders he had received. Since he became a soldier, more than % years ago, he has never had so long a stay in one place as he has just had in Changteh. He thinks it is good for the soldiers and good for the people among whom they live that they should keep on the move. Permanent residence in a garrison too soon softens the men and renders them less able to endure the hardness of a real campaign. Very few generals anywhere can have taken more care against such a danger than General Feng has taken over lifs men throughout) their stay at Changteh. There have been some half a dozen centres in the two counties where the men have been billeted; there has been a fairly constant change within that circle of places. Generally speaking, six weeks has been the time any one battalion has stayed in one place.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.