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...effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
...exodus threatened to become a stampede, Peiping newspapers published an amazing story, impossible to confirm. Far north in Manchuria, they declared, 60,000 Chinese irregulars had suddenly appeared under General Yang Shou-chu, captured six towns, 600,000 rounds of ammunition, 1,200 rifles, 282 Japanese officers & men, 16 mountain guns, 14 field guns and 13 machine guns. To this Chinese-rumored victory was added the assertion that "20 of the captured Japanese were executed on the spot though $100,000 gold was offered to spare their lives...
Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...
...Chu Chao-hsin-Mr. Chu as he was known to most of Europe-was once a graduate student at Columbia University, once Charge d'Affaires at the Chinese Legation in London, later the most outspokenly anti-British of Chinese delegates to the League of Nations. In 1927 he horrified Geneva diplomats by declaring, during a debate on the opium question...
...Appointed Governor of Shantung Province in September 1930, lithe, redoubtable War Lord Han Fu-chu has slashed through the snarl of official extortion which had made Shantung the worst governed province in China. Today Shantung is called China's best-governed province. Han stands for no nonsense. In his capital, Tsinan (see map), there is snap, discipline, morale. When the War Lord stalks with swift strides about his headquarters, ceaselessly puffing cigarets and ripping out orders in short-chopped Chinese, things get done...