a viceroy in his control of two er more provinces under the ime perial regime was guily of the crime of accumulating a million oF two, Peking soon heard of it relieved him of a goodly part, punishment for squecte irom people. During the early years of republic the tuchuns (governors)
self-constituted generals, fearing their officer might be of short duration, boarded their three four millions of dollars in three oF four years. But to-day under the Nationalists, the commanders, genferulissimos, marshals, goneruls and ministers, have accenting persistent rumours accumulated jmilions and tens of millions each. [These militarists demand pay the army, millions to dis-bani it, milans te quell brigands, VEvery newspaper, foreign and Chinese, informs its readers of this duily. Vide, te-day's paper (Sept, '20)"" the 'Commander in chief "General Chiang Kai-shek has ordered the Changla salt commis. Sonery....+. to furnish $1,600,000 Defore' the Mid-Autumn " estival for the expenses of the Nationalist troops in the Peking and Tientsin ress." In the very same issue of the "North-China Daily News, (Sept. 17) in which Dr. Yui reported to have assured his audience that "that from ie, the squees'ng) of militarism has. van-correspondent. from thig ince, draws a picture neglected arnly." He writes: The soldiers are poorly clad, undernourished, it' is evident that' ther are not being properly looked after by the commissary department, nor is medical service Going anything for them, no cure taken for their: lodgings when they fave transferred. Any communist with $50 can buy 50 men. The officers are well sot up, better nouished, better clothed:
Foreigners in Wuchang in March 1927 overheard soldiers who had come up. from Canton say that unless they received some pay soon, they would loot the city. They were sx months without a-cent of Naturally, their commander accumulating his wealth, Meanwhile, wot only the soldiers,
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