The general was a nat nan, but of recent yea his "home in Chaochowfu, and had Dduilt himself a modern house there. He was bluff hearty soldier, simple in dress, unconventional in manner, and of marked personal courage, Stories grew quickly round his name, and he appeal to the vein of adventure which is to be found in the common folk of the land, and which has its classic in the Three Kingdom novel, ax ours has in the tales of Robin Hood, One marked instance of his personal disregard of danger occurred a few years ago in Chi chow fu, His troops were as usual il-paid, owing to the rapacity of the paymasters. A company broke on the parade stound and made for the main street of the City to Toot. They broke on the peaceful city firing indiscriminately, and as. the terrified shop-people went down, the street several unfortunates were shot dead.
News of the mutiny quickly reach~ ed headquarters and Hung himself hurried forth on foot, attended by 'a small body-guard, and with a pistol in each hand marched into the disturbance and shot the mutineers out of hand, Whatever criticisms} might be brought against him, on other grounds it was bravely done, and the City was grateful to be} wed the horrors of general looting.
was at that time that the project was first mooted of erecting a statue to him, and though this was not eventually done by the city he carried it out himself!
'A Temporary Retreat During his five years of office he was once compelled to leave for a few months while Hsu-Ts'ung-chi development. This was well planned work, and though it fell with ruthless severity.on_ the people whose property was affected, he had the popular will behind him, and no general resentment was displayed. He represented on a smaller scale the same tendency which Ch'en Chiung-ming showed on the scale of the province, namely an impatience with larger' political schemes—of national re-unification, and a desire to get on with the work in hand, the development of the district in which his writ ran. Ch'en quarrel-Ted with Sun Yat-sen on the poi and turned down his chimerical /scheme of an expedition to the North in favour of provincial development, and n larger policy of loose' confederacy of provinces under the central government. Hung his sphere carried out the same ideas. As a general policy it is possible that Sun was right and] Ch'en wrong, but the immed result was that where Ch'en and Hung went things were done, while their opponents had little of' public benefit to show.
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