Show Ring of Chinese Grafters Prince Ching head of the foreign department of the Chinese government govern govern- m ment nt Is pictured as an eminent oriental ori on- grafter by the Peking correspondent correspondent corre corre- of the London Times who writes Since the downfall of Yuan kai Shih-kai the wu pu foreign office office of of- fice flee has bas relapsed into its former state of or incapacity and for this Prince Ching is to blame Amiable but corrupt corrupt corrupt cor cor- rupt he has stood for a a generation for all that thatIs Is Ms worst in Chinese official official- dom All All All' stories of his rapacity his greed his unscrupulous sales of office his indifference to fo the affairs of state His wealth Is Is' Is enormous yet no generous generous gen gen- erous or charitable action has ever I been recorded in his favor lavor Every new minister in every very office of ot emolument I has to pay him toll |