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...sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo. If this was not the greatest possible humiliation fora Chinese Government claiming to be sovereign, the climax was capped when Japan forced Chinese officials to take away the revolvers of their own customs guards and the Japanese Navy announced that any interference by a Chinese revenue cutter...
Eastern Hopei lies between the Great Wall of Peiping and the vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
Died. King Fuad I of Egypt, 68, ninth sovereign of his dynasty; after long illness complicated by stomatitis and gangrene; in Cairo. Fat, scholarly Ahmed Fuad, proclaimed King in 1922, was Great Britain's unwilling puppet, repeatedly threw his weight against the Wafdists, Egypt's overwhelming majority party. His only son, Prince Farouk, 16, succeeds to the throne under a regency...
Divorced, K. M. James (''Jimmy") Lin, 28, nephew and adopted son of China's puppet President Lin Sen; by Viola Brown Lin, 25, onetime 5?-&-10? store clerk; in Columbus, Ohio. Last April Jimmy, a graduate student at Ohio State University, walked into a store to buy a fishing rod, met Miss Brown. His marriage three months later shocked & grieved President Lin, caused a political stir. In September Jimmy deserted his wife, fled home...
General Lázaro Cárdenas was to be another Calles puppet as President of Mexico. But at last the Party had found a man who sincerely believed in its program. Impassively, almost imperceptibly, prim-faced Cárdenas undercut Calles by giving the people some of the things Calles had promised them. When, last year, Calles suddenly tried to crack down on his man, he found that Cárdenas had sewed up the loyalty not only of the peasants and workers but of the Army as well...