One of the most remarkable figures in China to-day must Feng Vu-hsiang, the Christian General" and late Tuchun of the Province of Shensi. Foreigners with whom he has come in contact are greatly impressed with him, so much so that the Chinese press only the other day thought it necessary to warn "simple-minded foreigners" against being too ready to negotiate a loan with the government on the strength of his support. Now after all the flattering things which have been said about General Feng, we get an interesting sidelight through the Central China Post" on how he is regarded by the people who have lived under his rule. In a private letter one of the ''Post's" correspondents at Sianfu says that all the people are glad he is gone and hoping that he will never come back. His goodness was so tyrannically oppress sive that ordinary people were in terror of their lives while the city was undergoing the process of cleaning up at his hands.
Thereafter General Feng proceeded to clean up Kaifeng, and in so doing drove all the singing girls to take refuge in Hankow, a proceeding which is characterized as an act of high-handed oppression. Taking everything into account our Hankow contemporary, while admitting. that the General means well, suggests. here a case of overmuch righteousness. While like all
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