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Things had been going quite well. Up in Hupeh province government troops had just put to flight Communist General Ho Lung. They captured 1,800 of his soldiers, made them kneel in long rows while down each row tramped a government executioner with a great, broad sword. Swish, swish, swish, 1,800 heads fell. General Ho, as he fled, dropped like hot cakes Miss Esther Nordlund, 34 (and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50), missionaries (TIME, May 4). They reached Hankow safely last week, gave the first account of little-known, muchdreaded General Ho...
...were not badly treated," said Miss Nelson. "General Ho gave us coffee and cake while we discussed religion and world politics. His wife is mission-educated. So are many of his advisers. His men are well disciplined. They are executed instantly if caught smoking opium. General Ho is a Communist and objects to being called a bandit. He predicts that Communistic principles will eventually conquer all China...
Next day the rebels claimed that War Minister Ho Yingching had joined them. He did not deny it. From Hankow he telegraphed to President Chiang with brutal frankness that 28,000 government troops in Kiangsi had just deserted to the Communists. Ordinarily such bad news would be kept secret...
Professor Chester Noyes Greenough '98, master of Dunster House, tells how ho was aroused from his study one night this fall by a ring at the doorbell to find a workman at the door with his small daughter. The man explained to Professor Greenough that ho had helped in the stoel construction of the House and wondered if he might show his daughter how it looked inside when all completed...
...Ho Ho! Ha Ha Ha! Mr. Hughes will have a good laugh on this now and Mr. Lewis will get a fine kick out of it, as inspired prophet of coming events. About Mr. Hughes' literary tastes he says: "For the past twenty-four years Mr. Hughes has cultivated Dumas, and knows more about Athos, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Aramis than did the mothers who bore them...