Chang Fu-lai hails from a village in Chiaohosien, some 20 miles from Tsangchow. While recently touring, in the fsighbourhood, one gathered that His Excellency is doing well in his new post, in fact, to quote a ocolloquialism, "doing himself proud." Though the pay of his troops is months in arrears, the General's agents in Chiaoho are busy buying up all the available property and land in the market, and extensive building operations are go-Ing on in his ancestral home.
This is the type of Tuchun we have become familiar with in recent years, who has accumulated a vast fortune in an incredibly short time. It is to be hoped that their hay-making days are speedily coming to an end. Where is the man who will "sack the lot?"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.