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...Tientsin, second largest Chinese port, a Chinese mob of 2,000 clashed with Chinese police near the borderline between the Chinese City and the Japanese Concession. Arrested mobsmen swore later that they had been paid $40 Mex. ($10) each by Japanese agents provocateurs. However this might be the Japanese garrison commander repulsed rioters from the vicinity of the Japanese concession with a warning burst of machine gun fire, then unlimbered his field pieces and dropped 40 small explosive shells in the Chinese quarter of Tientsin...
From Washington to Tokyo a secret note was sent by Secretary of State Stimson. Japanese sent a secret reply, also charged publicly that a League of Nations representative in Shanghai has spent $120,000 Mex. ($30.000) in the past few weeks cabling the Chinese Government's point of view to the detriment of Japan...
Gibbering with terror, the unpatriotic storekeepers were flung prostrate on the floor before Anti-Japan Association "judges," kowtowing and howling for mercy. The "judges" imposed and actually collected "fines" up to $10,000 Mex. ($2,500) for the "crime" of selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...
...President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain the Nationalist Government to the Manchurian masses. In return for this the Panchen Lama receives a new title: "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture." and $480,000 ($2,160,000 Mex.) a year. $120,000 for himself and entourage, and $30,000 a month extra for "administrative expenses...
...Author. Robert Raynolds had reached the age of 28 without getting one of his stories published. Born in Santa Fe, N. Mex., in the room in the Governor's Palace where the late Author Lew Wallace is supposed to have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took...