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...Chinese have blocked the river with timbers, sunken junks and hunks of concrete. Eleven other barriers straddle the river between Kinkiang and Hankow. This week, Japanese mine sweepers, gingerly nosing up to the boom, were driven off by Chinese big guns at the Matang fort, and Chinese General Chang Fah-kwei, entrusted last week by the Generalissimo to defend Hankow against a Yangtze assault, breathed easier as the rain-swollen river itself came to his aid, spilled over and drove several Japanese landing parties back to the boats...
...that he has just received the adherence of the Chinese Nazi Party. Explained a colleague of the Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...
...twisted Goldwyn tongue: that verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered bloody murder, sued unsuccessfully for $5,000,000. When...
...China's Dictator Chiang Kai-shek resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law (1 T. V. Soong, 2 Wu Pei-fu, 3 H. H. Kung, 4 Chang Hsueh-liang, 5 Eugene Chen...
...Star Over China contains a brief, complicated but convincing account of the Sian Mutiny. Last week a detailed study of this affair was published by Snow's sub-correspondent James Bertram (FIRST ACT IN CHINA, Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek...