The frst three worthies on the! whose losses are grouped $2,000,000, are not the only persons resentful of the confiscation and therefore eager to ce the Cantonese undone, for the bulk of that tidy: fortune' cons ts of property originally belonging to Chang Ckinyao' and Tang Shananin, jex-Governors of Hunan, and was feat of the Anfu party. plains why Chang Chin-ya ed himself to Chang Tso: the latter was at war Pei-fu and the Chili party, and showed a keen interest in the downfall of Wu Pei and why he hus sines attached himself to Wu Pei-fu as military adviser and now wants to help him recover Hankov. He needs the money. His enormous} wealth is gine and he cannot get fan office in the north because he Jis still outlawed by the Americar Government for the Reimart murder so that any Government that} {gave him a post would be £0 harried with protests and demands for his trial that it would not, be jsrorth while. Just before be joined Wu Peifu he mortgaged the Inst} of als northern property holdings for $600,000 to have cash ready for en emergency in which money might mean victory or defeat, is probably gone too.
Wang Chan-yean is in the same romouring that he was ting in and out of Nanking, advising Sun Chuan-fang, kee} in touch with Peking, Tientsin and Mukden, because he again wanted the governorship of Hupeh, the old man's really keen interest in the success of Sun Chung-fang's cam~ paign was inspired by the thought of what the Cantonese might do to the property which he and feng held jointly in the Wu-jorge for a Tuehua, [that he has little elsewhere, but was not in office so very' long and he did well enough while he was there, consid' ing wat a clamour Wa Pel-fa was always making for funds. His loss is the more irretrievable, however, because it fe largely in anth. The only way private fortune, under Wu's vigil lance, to which a Tuchun is traditionally—entitled, was to fail to pay troops-aod can the hae fash, If ho had nude investments it would have been g My known and the ever-impoverished Marshal would been on his trail in a Jiffy, wanting to know where he got the money and why it had not one into the common pot, Tver /month he drew from the provincial treasury $300,000 for carefully it~ nized" military" expenses, reasonable expenses which any of Mar shal Wu's auditors would have ap. prowd, The merest fraction of these went to the army. When the campaign began in Hunan and Hupeh had to mobilize, this monthly drain on the treasury was in. creased to $600,000, This helps to explain why tha Hupeh troops made such a poor chewing and why they did not move at Wu Pei-fu's order: as issued from Changhsintien be-fave the Marshal realized that things were getting serian ant went South, too late, to take per-Sonal—chaige." Chen "Chiao couldn't move them beearie they weren't property paid noe equlpe ped.
The Wachang Defence Explained This matter of the Tuchun's secret secumulation is also said to have had a great deal to do wifie the obstinate stand made by the defenders of Wachang. After the defeat of the 8th Division under Wu Pei-fu in the vicinity of Wu Jehang, Chen Chia-mo and the rem nants of his army might have os teaped to Hankow and beyond. Cet tainly thers would have teen time for the Tuchon and his senior ofrs to have escaped before the city of Wuchang was closely in. vested but the Tuchun decided to defend it, Everyone marvelled and applauded, beeavse the very fut Governor "had rever appealed to popular fancy in the guise ut grim and determined warrior. Tt now transpires that Chen Tuchuny at the outset had no intention of holding and defending Wuchang. He made an effort to get himself and $300,000 in exch, which he had by kim, transported to Hankow. anil failed. 'He might lave" erossed person, even in a sampan, but would not desert the shining doland later, when he might kava wanted to leave, his avenues of escape were ext off. So he fourht' for his hide and his money. The Initer he has already lost and he fount himeelf very formef is not panctur? Poe a wee lad
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