Gift for Education Followed up by Donation to Adherents Mukden, Sept. 2
It will be remembered that, short ly after his assumption of office as Gommander-in-Chief of the "Three Eastern Provinces, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang gave $9,000,000 out of his late father's fortune for the promotion of education, this liberal grant being shared between various educational institutions in Manchuria, some of them previously founded by the donor himself, This donation, large though the sum was, might have been cynically explained as a mere generous e3- ture for the purpose of gaining popularity, since a due sense for Public weilare has been a rare characteristic among the political leaders of modern China, But there is'now at hand ow, of Zorther hal" which seems. to refute that donations frag the "Young Mat idea and prove that his generosity was, and fs, dictated by more noble tnotives than selfish ambition. learned that he has recently distributed among his fellow-officers in the Manchurian army—in ap: preciation of their loyal and faithfal service' through all the vleis situdes of the recently concluded, tracts of land, aggregating about 200 mow, situated. in the best residential section of Mukden and valued at $1,000,000, At the same ime he dat also amply rewarded those civil offeials in Manchuria who have distinguished themselves by eapabitity, honesty and modesty, by distributing among them all his shares in the Frontier Bank, Tt would seem, indeed, from there cts of generosity-—which. will no doubt be followed by more in. the Taturemas if Chang Houeb-liang considered himself "more ax. the Public trustee, than as the actual Possessor, of the vast wealth. in-hented from his Into father. And is evidently' actuated by the genuine and unselfish desire to de-ote this inheritance to philanthropic and beneficial purposes-—Reuter,
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