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...tribesmen and the better equipped Chinese troops sent out to rule them. Sinkiang paper money was worth 3% of its face value. But the threatened secession of Sinkiang from China to join the Soviet Union seemed to have been averted, partly due to the daring of Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan of Nanking who has just led a "pacification mission" to and from these howling wilds...
Szechwan, about 1,000 miles from Nanking, was in revolt last week against Governor Liu Hsiang who got his job last year by heading a successful revolt against his uncle, then Governor Liu Wen-hui. Chinese sometimes remark, with but slight exaggeration, that "Szechwan has been in revolt for the last 20 years." Since Nephew Liu seemed to be holding his own against the insurgents Chiang's Council of Generals wisely left him to hold down if he can Uncle Liu's erstwhile seat...
...idea which would tie up Japan's long-range hope of cutting out of China an independent "buffer state"' between China and Manchukuo. He asked Sir Miles where was a Chinese with sufficient authority to negotiate for China. Sir Miles named the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Lo Wen-kan. Then he went to see Dr. Lo. To all this the Japanese Foreign Office remained lukewarm. It announced the Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker...
Chinese generals in the north were not so sure. Reports reached Tientsin that a new "Western Expedition" of 3,000 Japanese troops was sweeping from conquered Jehol province into Chahar Province, Inner Mongolia. Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries...
Though he withholds the provincial revenues from Finance Minister Soong and does about as he pleases, able War Lord Han leaves Shantung's relations with the Great Powers and the League of Nations to Nanking Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan who writes & receives diplomatic notes for all China...