Model Province's Decline: Army First for Defence Now a General Incubus Tt has taken only two year® of steady adherence to the military ideal to make the so-called Model Province of Shansi no longer a model, according to a recent to Shanghai from that province, F. J. Wampler, head of the Pinlingchow Hospital' in Shansi_and vincial represcatative for Shansi the Council of Health Educat which he was formerly director While not stressing the the province in an interview which he gave: yesterday, Dr, Wampler explained how the mili the province has acted as a block on all work of this kind, To begin with, he said, it would appear that Goverror Yen, who has been hailed in the past as the "Model Governor," has permitted himself to be caught in a trap of his own making. For ubout two and a half years, the province has been obsessed with 'a fear of the invasion of its borders, and in justification of this dread Governor Yen has been constantly building up his army, which began with real zo shortly after the coup d'état of General Feng in Peking in the autumn of 1924.
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