Honest Magistrate's Great Work in Anhui Nanking, May 23, The good work of Liu Kwang-pel, the Magistrate of Hohsien, Anhui, in suppressing racketeers and reconstructing the city has been praised by Professor Joseph Bailie, the well-known American agriculturist here, {in a letter to the Minister of Finance, Dr. H. H. Kung, who was instru: mental in' placing Mr, Liu in his resent office. Dr. Bailie has been devoting his time to missionary work in Anhui and to helping Mr. Liu in his constructive endeavour, In his letter to Dr. Kung, he writes:—"Mr. Liu hag done a great deal for the people of Hohsien since he went there, and I am glad that you will not have any reason to regret the art you took in placing him there, He found the place completely con-oiled by racketeers. "He has cleaned. these out. He found the taxes being collected by no fewer than 1,000 tax-collectors. He has systematized the collection of taxes so that 36 men under salaries do all that work and that too without squeezing a single copper. All the 1,000 odd have been wiped off the slate, "He is now finishing the building of the city wall. Roads are being constructed to every point int hsien. The police force has been Jorganized and so stationed as to secure the safety of the hsien.
"He has done all this with penditure of only $4,800 a month, while his predecessors, who did nothing for the good of the people, spent for the administration of the hhslen something like $6,500 per month, "His hands are clean, he is giving justice to all, and the people him "and do everything he asks without grumbling. "The people know that he is saving them a great deal of money by his driving out rs, gambler course of INF.
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