Raising funds in the midst of an economic depression among the Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen could never be welcomed. But Tan's modus operandi left no one feeling a grudge.
在南洋華商普遍陷入經營低潮的時候募捐，誠然不是一件受歡迎的事，不過陳嘉庚的做法，仍然令大家服氣。