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Deep in China's southwest, roaming the great mountains of Kweichow where much of the world's mercury is mined and men speak a language called "Miao," feline Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week was stalking Communists, beating them from their lairs, butchering them by hundreds and then thousands-notwithstanding that he is a Methodist of bland and gentle mien...
...Just an effort on the part of Shanghai to advance on the trail of progress blazed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek," Mayor Wu told friends who overwhelmed him with congratulations. "The first Wednesday in every month from now on I will conduct such marriages. The thing has taken hold at once. Already 31 couples have applied for next month. It is all part of Generalissimo Chiang's great 'New Life' movement to regenerate China...
...When I arrived in the Southwest," said General Doihara, "I found a strong disposition on the part of Chinese leaders there to make hostile political capital out of the friendly statements on Chino-Japanese relations made recently by the Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and General Chiang Kaishek. In friendly personal conversations I convinced these Chinese leaders that it would be a tragic blunder, harmful alike to the Chinese and Japanese peoples, to make a football for domestic Chinese politics out of the growing rapprochement between our two great nations. Eventually I discovered that the Southwest leaders are as keenly...
Every Dictator bedevils his people with improvements and in Nanking shrill, wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has been bedeviling Chinese schoolgirls into skirts. Last week skirted schoolgirls humbly petitioned: "At least in cold weather we beg permission to wear the warm trousers to which we were accustomed. Our new garments have resulted in cold legs...
Inflexible, Nanking authorities rejected the petition, added that schoolgirls will also do well to observe more scrupulously General Chiang's edict against bobbed hair...