There will be much relief that the report of the attempted assassination lof General Han Fucchu turns out to bbe ill-founded. It would be indeed re-Jgrettable if, his strong personality were taken from the North. General Han Fu Chu has done much for the improvement of conditions in his province. He learnt his soldiering under General Feng Vu-hsiang. He became Chairman of the Shantung Provincial Government in 1930 and in 1992 he asserted his intention to be master in his own house by di Posing of the claims of General Liu Chen-chien to a share in the respon-and Major E. Ainger, Brigade Major. sibility for the province. General Liu was heavily defeated and eventually Gisappeared from the scene, General Han' Fu-chu is essentially an in" dividualist and his methods of galvai izing his subordinates into action Jare' effective. He manages to preserve his Independence but at the same time, taking full heed of the Central Government's policy regional "tolerance," is on terms of good relationship with Nanking, besides keeping in amicable touch with the local Japanese officials, In recent weeks his presence in Peiping has been desired on more than occa sion but he is chary of leaving his own headquarters to take part in discussing affairs with which he considers he is not directly concerned. Born in 1800 in Pahsien, Hopel, Gen-Jeral Han Fuchu is sull' on the right side of fifty. In him General Chiang Kai-shek's Government has a forceful Jand em cient provincial colleague.
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