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Same day Generalissimo Chiang's bland, stogie-smoking brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and more sweeping than any in recent Chinese annals. "I have had unqualified success," he beamed, "in cementing the political bonds of Northern leaders with Nanking...
More familiarly last week rang the name of the Abbot Chao Kung, born Ignatz...
...again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere unwelcome, Trebitsch-Lincoln looked eastward upon Buddhism, saw that it was good. He entered a monastery near Peiping, took the name Chao Kung, had his hair clipped and the twelve circular brands of the Buddhist wheel of life burned into his bullet pate. Two years ago he returned to Germany to gain converts. Jailed in Cologne for an old debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned...
Last week Chao Kung turned up in Victoria, B. C. Canadian officials offered no nonsense. Apparently well supplied with money, dressed in a black satin robe and accompanied by ten male and female Buddhists, Chao Kung said: "I want to be friends with the British and the world in general." He announced he would cross the continent, deliver some lectures, proceed to Germany. He explained that (like Locanatha Bhikkhu) he is a vegetarian. "It is not that we believe in unnecessarily castigating the body, but we believe the mind works better if the body is fed less. Buddhism demands precise...
...regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...