'Turning again to the men thundered out, have been accuse fed of holding' back your pay. It's lie, Your rightful wages have been paid out regularly by me, and if you have not received the sums due to you, you, have been robbed by_ your officers!"
The truth of this blunt statement was partially confirmed by soldier informant, who stated that his own commander was commonly reported to, have aid over eng intended for the men to tis SldSmother, & subtle combination of filial piety and rank corruption.
On the morning following the account of this significant speech in Tainan there appeared a Reuter Peking telegram in the Tientsin papers tell recent personal inspection of practi cally all his forees, and mention= ing & thorough "weeding out" from the Shanglung Avmy, which has now been "reduced to 4 presumably loyal to their Chief, The extent to which they may: relied upon in. the coming weeks may lo gauged rom information supplied to me to-day by an officer this same Army who is on leave from his "somewhere in. Shantung." In the course of frank conversation on the situa and when he discovered that a good deal was already known to me of hard facts, he blurted out that he was making his own arranycements to go over "to the other side" when a suitable opportunity offered!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.