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Fifty-eight years ago in an obscure village of Szechwan Province in southwest China, a modestly well off Chinese couple was blessed with a manchild, hope and pride of every Chinese home. He was given the name of Chang Shan-tse ("Good Fellow"). Five years later the mother, yielding to her small son's plea for playmates, secured for him three vigorous tiger cubs with which the infant not only played, but slept...
Died. Hsu Shih-chang, 81, onetime President of the Chinese Republic (1918-22); in Tientsin. Holder of many high offices under the last Manchu dynasty (finally Grand Guardian of Emperor Pu Yi), he was said to have been the only Chinese to receive both imperial and republican honors...
Amleto Vespa was born in Italy, became a secret agent of Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin in 1920 and a Chinese citizen in 1924. When the Japanese took over Manchuria, they also took over Amleto Vespa. He was useful to them for his knowledge of the country, and for his status as a European who nevertheless could not claim the protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until...
SHANGHAI, Tuesday, Oct. 11--Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei, China's famed "ironsides" commander, claimed the greatest victory of the Chinese-Japanese war today, asserting that he had virtually wiped out the Japanese 101st division from Tokyo in a series of smashing counter attacks on the Nanchang front southeast of Hankow...
...Yenching University in Peiping, Lingnan University in Canton, Hua Chung College in Wu-chang. West China Union University in Chengtu, Hwa Nan College and Fukien Christian University in Foochow, Cheeloo University in Tsinan, University of Nanking and Ginling College in Nanking, and St. John's University, University of Shanghai, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian College in the Shanghai area. This does not include Rockefeller Foundation's Peiping Union Medical College, various Catholic institutions (European as well as U. S.-supported...