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...Province last winter. Lush dreams to millions of Chinese and a headache to the League of Nations was contained in an announcement last week that the Japanese-Manchukuo Government was doing everything in its power to increase the cultivation of opium in Jehol. The old Chinese tax of ten yuan ($2) a mow (1/6; acre) on poppy fields will be reduced one-half by Japan...
...Emperor of Japan, illustrious "Son of Heaven" He had spent the day writing diplomatic notes to President Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XI, King George V, Premier Benito Mussolini and other foreign devils." Each note will be personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...
Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...
...Chinese pot that has been boiling ominously since the Japanese invasion of Shanghai six months ago, blew the lid off last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China...
...take for months. Because China simply had to have a Government, the Nanking political muddle unsnarled itself faster than might otherwise have been the case. Cantonese Dr. Sun Fo (son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic") was chosen President of the Executive Yuan, equivalent to Premier. At the same time the Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party tinkered with China's organic law in such a way as to reduce the powers of the President and make that office resemble the Presidency of France. Into this post of honor, suddenly shorn of much...