And in amplifying the simile, they did not scruple in my hearing to say that Marshal Feng was the:
Tsao-Tsao of to-day. To which statement the best rejoinder I have heard made is that whereas previously in China loyalty was to the man, to the superior officer, or to the patron, in Marshal Feng's view the true loyalty is loyalty to the country. Thus if one's party leader proves unworthy, it ix both justifiable and desirable to remove him, and oppose him in every way. Which answer I may admit for my own part was satisfactory to my. among Feng' and is shown many ils. For example, in former days the flags flown on the flagstaffs in front of the Governor General's them—this word Leader. These are now replaced by national five-coloured flags, plying that the New Loyalty _is loyalty to the country, not to the man.
We spent an interesting forenoon recently going round the newly. opened Government Orphanage, and. Almshouses for the old, and Tramps' Rest—now a work house of the better sort. The places are clean, the inmates contented; those in. charge seem alert. Such activities impress our Kansu people favourably, and according to the Provincial Directors (the official title of the: chief military executive under the absent Marshal) energizing force of such activities is to be found in the sincere Christianity of their chief.
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