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Chungking fell back to horse & buggy days. High officials began riding rickshas to set a good example; Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and War Minister Ho Ying-chin apologized publicly for the extravagant motoring of subordinates. The Minister of Communications set up a "bus" line of brightly painted two-wheel carts drawn by stubborn little Szechwan ponies. Most commercial trucks and private cars were withdrawn from the road...
China's War Minister Ho Ying-chin warned the world (see p. 18) that Japan would probably launch an attack on Russia within a month. In Chungking the official Central Daily News did a little goading: "Russia . . . should take the initiative and strike first, rather than wait to be struck...
...rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
...John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...
...near its capital, Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland winter has already come, but Mongolian troops allied with...