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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances...
...Marshal Chang is the self-proclaimed defender of foreigners in China, is known to be subsidized by Great Britain and Japan. His troops are the best in China, well drilled, equipped with guns from his own arsenals. Likewise the concubines, the motor cars, the palaces of Chang Tso-lin are the best in China. His might is the only right in North China. Despatches from correspondents of the New York Times and London Times agreed that at the very moment when Senator Bingham and Chang Tso-lin were sipping tea, Marshal Chang's officers were busy with a well...
...atrocity, dignified by the title of "execution," concerned 40 Chinese seized in a raid on the grounds of the Soviet Embassy at Peking (TIME, April 18), in violation of international law. Seized also were various documents which Chang Tso-lin's own interpreters translated as they pleased. These were introduced as evidence at a secret trial last week, and half the 40 prisoners were ordered strangled. They were not told which were to be strangled, which imprisoned or set free. They were simply herded into a compound a short distance from where Senator Bingham and War Lord Chang were...
Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times cabled that Chang Tso-lin explained to Senator Bingham: "I maintain order. I will not allow anti-foreignism in my territory...
...friend. He has now become my enemy. A few days ago he died as a revolutionary and arose as a counterrevolutionary. He used fine words about the revolution, but at the most convenient opportunity betrayed it. It is not likely that Chiang Kai-shek will continue to fight against Chang Tso-lin. Down with Chiang Kaishek! Down with the traitor...