In this connexion mention should be made of a proclamation that Governor Yen put out a few days age, addressed to the officers and soldiers of the Shansi army. In plain language the governor recited the "crimes" of soldiers of his during their campaigning north last spring and summer. These misdemeanors ranged all the way from rape to assumption of district offices. Officers and soldiers were admonished in the strongest possible language to repent. and never again bring such disgrace upon the good name of Shansi, General Liu Chen-hua, _qommender-in-chief of the Wu' P'ei-fu armies in Shansi, paid a flying on the 8th instant, He reached Taiyuanfu by special train about 1 p.m. on that day and left at nine o'clock the same evening. The object of this fying visit has not, of course, been divulged, but it unquestionably has something to do with the present campaign against the Kuominchun in Shansi, recent mandate issued by Governor Yen levies a surtax of 25 per cent. of the freight charges upon all goods curried on the Cheng-tai Railway. The funds so secured are to be used for the "protection" of the railway, which is just another way of saying, for military expenses, This order is worthy of note in that it represents Governor Yen's first effort to derive a revenue for the provincial government from the working of this railway.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.