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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot came from a window of the hotel's grand suite, occupied by its most prosperous and ugly customer. He and several of his concubines had moved in some time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part...
Diplomatic pressure from the Great Powers mobilized by U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, last week virtually imposed peace between Nationalist China and Soviet Russia. Dictator-Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria, commander of China's first line of defense, even found leisure to pose and talk pidgin English for U. S. Movietone minions...
...Chino-Russian frontier. The moment such a skirmish assumed sufficiently bloody proportions to be called an "overt act," it might serve as the tinder spark of war. Soon across the barrier of censorship, lies vast and uncharted distances, came a loud Chinese accusation. The Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, officially charged that Red troops had attacked Chinese frontier guards not far from Pogro-nichnaya...
Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...
Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...