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...arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile wired from Nanking asking goat-bearded General Sung Cheh-yuan, who is supposed to be the real ruler of Hopei and Chahar Provinces, to maintain some kind of Nanking authority in North China by accepting the title of "Pacification Commissioner." This honor General Sung, who looks and knows how to act the part of a traditional hoary Chinese War Lord...
Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully...
...Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former Chinese Governor of Chahar, General Sung Cheh-yuan, who was cashiered by Nanking last spring, when he threatened to lead his troops against the advancing Japanese. This demotion caused General Sung abruptly to become pro-Japanese in all externals and last week, by Nanking's appointment, he was the new Commander of the Peiping-Tientsin Chinese...
...Province and thereabouts (see map). He has bought openly as many as 10,000 hospital beds at one clip, bought discreetly proportionate supplies of rifles, machine guns, field pieces, battle planes and munitions. For the heads of No. 1 Communist General Chu Teh and No. 2 Communist General Mao Cheh-tung-both Chinese of good family who received military training abroad-he has offered 80,000 silver dollars apiece, or $100,000 if the head is delivered attached to the body. With 300,000 Nanking soldiers in the field and ready to begin the anti-Red drive under Generalissimo Chiang...