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Last week a storm broke upon Shanghai newsmen in a downpour of unexpected violence. First warning came like a clap of thunder in the form of an executive decree, issued by Wang Ching-wei's Japanese-puppet Government at Nanking, ordering the arrest and deportation from China of six U. S. newsmen, one Briton for "endeavoring to undermine the Chinese [i.e., Wang] Government ... by distributing rumors and improper statements endangering the Republic...
...warning only was the Nanking decree. Neither Britain nor the U. S. speaks to Wang Ching-wei: they could not obey his order without granting tacit recognition to his Government. As long as the seven newsmen stay inside Shanghai's International Settlement, they are safe from arrest. The six who are U. S. citizens cannot be deported anyhow without a trial before the U. S. District Court for China...
...rumble seat). One of them was supposed to be no less a person than Prince Fumimaro Konoye. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr was later said to have peace terms for Chiang. Mme. Chiang flew to Hong Kong: she was going to talk peace with Puppet-Elect Wang Ching-wei. The U. S., British and French Ambassadors met in Shanghai; they were talking peace. They met in Chungking; they were talking peace. Last week Shanghai's onetime Mayor Wu Te-chen was in Hong Kong; he too was rumored making peace feelers...
...against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China." Object was to win a victory spectacular enough to justify final and official recognition by the Imperial Japanese Government of their Chinese puppet ruler at Nanking, multiple-turncoat Wang Ching...
...statesmen boozy. Several Japanese Premiers have been notoriously copious tosspots. It was therefore a great build-up of Chinese Puppet Wang in the eyes of Japanese when the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun (News) quoted Director Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Foreign Office Information Service apropos his personal acquaintance with Wang Ching-wei some dozen years ago in Peiping...