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...clouds rolled over the Me Nam River, flames leaped from shop to shop. Grilled balconies, Chinese lanterns, streamers, swinging signs, thatch roofs, telephone poles, all blazed up in the greatest fire Bangkok has ever known. Siamese firemen squirted ineffective streams. Five hundred buildings (chiefly Chinese) including the Bank of Canton were destroyed, for a total loss of over $2,000,000. Two thousand Chinese were left homeless. None died...
...Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays no part in politics. Last week this indomitable lady suddenly lashed out at both her cousins, the Nationalists and the Canton Government of the South. Said...
...More recently Nanking and Canton stood at opposition to each other each boasting of its own merits. . . . Both are antipeople and antirevolutionary...
...Wang who, severely injured, "resigned" (TiME, Oct. 5). One of the aspirants was Dr. Alfred Sze, delegate to the League of Nations. Many observers in Shanghai last week predicted that Dr. Koo's tenure would survive only until Dr. Sze's return from Geneva. The Canton faction stubbornly regarded Dr. Koo as only minister protem, hopeful of a chance to get its own Eugene Chen or Dr. C. C. Wu into the office permanently...
...President released last week Hon. Hu Han-min, onetime president of Nanking's Legislative Council, imprisoned last March when suspected of disloyalty to the President. In a spasm of patriotism Hon. Mr. Hu embraced President Chiang and set off at once to persuade his friends of the Canton Government to join the Nanking Government. Good news for China was a patriotic communique soon issued by Canton Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, sometimes suspected of Red leanings. Declared Mr. Chen, backing up President Chiang...