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Basic are two conclusions: 1) that Manchuria is a land "which China and foreign powers have always regarded as an integral part of China under Chinese sovereignty"† 2) that Manchuria has traditionally enjoyed local autonomy, notably when ruled by the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, but "the independence proclaimed by Marshal Chang Tso-lin at different times never meant that either he or the people of Manchuria wished to be separated from China. His armies did not invade China as if it were a foreign country, but merely as participants in the civil...
Last week Japanese newshawks in China triumphantly announced that they had found the reason. Tang's favorite wife, they alleged, had been kidnapped from Jehol and was being held in Peiping, a hostage of his loyalty, by China's "Young Marshal" Chang Hsuehliang. Setting out from Peiping, U. S. newshawks bumped 100 mi. over awful roads from Peiping to Tang's Capital, Chengteh...
...hearten War Lord Tang last week, young Marshal Chang and famed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong who is now "Acting Premier" made the unprecedented move (for Chinese statesmen) of venturing into the threatened province, Jehol. Bumping out from Peiping, risking a Japanese bombing raid on their way, they entered Chengteh through a triumphal arch provided by War Lord Tang...
...government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke out that Tuan was carrying to Nanking secret proposals from the Japanese Government. In Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that "since nothing can be expected from the League of Nations, the Manchurian dispute is leading toward direct negotiations with Tokyo...
There was no criticism of General Ho whose resistance Chinese editors called "magnificent," but at least a hundred Chinese War Lords and Generals sent out telegrams denouncing Peiping's "Young Marshal" Chang for not having sent more troops to Shanhaikwan, proclaimed fervently their own eagerness to fight Japan. Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from...