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...shooting occurred last week at Beppu, a summer resort on the Japanese island of Kiushiu. There Prince Hsien Kai, handsome 21-year-old cousin of poor P'u-yi. was strolling in the garden of his hotel when he heard a pistol report, felt the stab of a bullet in the back, fell grievously wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ugly Customer | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...whose wholesale savageries, rapes and extortions are a byword throughout the Orient, rich, scowling Chang Tsung-chang evoked awed, fearful respect when he and his suite put up at Beppu. That a shot would sooner or later be fired in or from Chang's sumptuous apartments might almost have been called a foregone conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ugly Customer | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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