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...rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in schemes to make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...
...driven through narrow Chinatown streets plastered with his portrait in vivid yellows and greens. "There never was anything like it!" said Detective Daniel Devoti of the Chinatown squad. "They are giving General Tsai a bigger welcome than they gave 37 years ago to the great Viceroy Li Hung- chang...
...General rose at the Hotel New Yorker to speak in Chinese to a great Chinese Charitable & Benevolent Association banquet, did Tsai reveal the drive, the mighty earnestness and kindling magnetism of the Hero of Shanghai. No representative of China's Government was present. Also pointedly absent was little General Chang Fat-hwai of the Government's "Ironsides Division." who arrived in Manhattan fortnight ago to study U. S. military methods, and may be made War Minister when he returns to Nanking. Shanghai was supposed to be Hero Tsai's theme, but the Chinese Government knew that he was going...
Bombing planes used ruthlessly against rebels have brought China the blessing of greater unity under her Nanking Government than seemed remotely possible even three years ago. Much to the Government's regret last week that Great Unifier, Colonel Shu Pei-kun, commander of Nan-chang air base, proved to have embezzled $1,000,000 Mex. ($360,000). Swish! - the broad sword of a Chinese executioner cut off Shu's head...
...Wong and Fong Tru Shek. Inseparable, they prospered together, became air-minded, bought a joint interest in an Avro Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like...