Honours and the Resignation of Mr. Tang Wen-tche, President of the Nanyang Technical College, are among the other questions also dealt with in the Chinese Press.
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How strangely has the Government acted recently, remarks the "Shunpao." The Kiangsu people} hope for good Government; yet an oficial incapable of good goverament is being forced upon them The Kiangsu people desire peace yet troops unaccustomed to peace are being sent to them. Does the Government hate Kiangsu so much that it must make the province a dumping ground for incompetent officials and barbarous troops? At first we did not believe the news about the transfer of Lung Chi-Kuang's troops to Kiangsu. But we are bound to give credence to official correspondence between the Governor of this province and Peking. The ability of the Government to band Lung's soldiers for lack of funds, should be no excuse to let them loose to find food in Kiaagsu which can ill afford to feed thei If the northern province wished 19 get rid of these men because of their troublesomeness, was Kiangsa in any better position to withstand their lawless excursions?
The "Shunpao" then points out that this province is already too densely populated and has no land to spare for Lung's men. If the Government must provide these men with land to cultivate, it should send them to the sparsely inhabite.t regions in frontier provinces. To have retained these troops when they could have been discharged was a great blunder. Now, their depredatory, atrocious actions are known, why should the Government continue to tolerate them any longer? If it is powerless to act in respect of Lung's troops, how can it hope to accomplish anything in the disbandment scheme as a whole?
Does there exist any Chinese so callous as to raise no protest when he hears of Lung's rabble coming to live and cultivate the land of his native town? asks the "'Sinwanpao." There is neither reason nor rhyme in this affair, which has already unnecessarily caused the people a great deal of alarm. Why should the Government have come to such an absurd decision, we cannot say. However, in face of the strong opposition, we do not think this decision will amount to anything. It is nevertheless a matter for regret that the Government should have not yet seen fit to order the disbandment of these utterly indisciplined marauders, who) have wrought such havoc among the populace wherever they went, but that it should have even devised ways and means for their livelihood.
Why should the people of Kiangyin subject themselves to the merciless depredations of these barbarous men owing to a whimsical decision of the Government?
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