So far _as is generally conceded Marshal Sun's previous carrer has not been especially brilliant, Old-timers who knew him in Fukien a few years ago dismiss him with an "Oh, well, he did fairly well I suppose," which seems to _have been a' pretty fair sizing-up. According to all precedents he was due for a few years' run at Hang. chow, after which he would be found taking the rest cure in Japan.
But as opportunities have come] his way he has used them and it! would be a blind man indeed who failed to seo that the Marshal to-day is a very different man from the adventurer, the soldier of; fortune, of whom we first began to hear less than (we years ago. The standardized procedure of the tuchuns on entering into office is} to grab, gouge and plunder evers source of revenue: they commandeer trains, stop traffic and use the cars as barracks for their vermin-infested coolies who go by the name of troops: they impress boats, carts, barrows and every conceivable form of transportation: they descend] upon the unhappy farmer, impress him and his animals into servic never bothering to see if he ey ets the latter back for his own} use: finally follows the levy on! capital which dries up every cent] of available revenue.
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