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Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
...which the Chinese were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting. In a further provoking challenge to Dictator Chiang, Japanese obtained the resignation of his subordinate commanding in North China, General Sung Cheh-yuan, and set up in his stead General Chang Tsu-chung. As mayor of Tientsin, he was approved by the Japanese and so far as Tokyo knows he is "loyal." Thus last week a Chinese tool of Japan was set up in Peiping as the executive of a piece of China as large as Texas. After touring about Peiping, optimistic Japanese Colonel...
...hearty dislike of being photographed with his chunky Japanese military advisers, but last week a snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting Yin's capital of Tungchow, found a Yin subordinate, plump and beaming. Chung Tun-fu, in a state of garrulity almost unheard of among Chinese politicos of any complexion. Plump Chung professes to be a great-nephew of Manchukuo's Premier General Chang Ching-hui. Blabbed...
Japanese Army chiefs, to whom the Divine Emperor has all the sanctity of God, promptly ordered Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to order Editor Tu Chung-yuan of New Life punished to the extreme limit of Chinese law in cases of defamation. In Shanghai last week these Japanese orders were carried out by a cringing panel of Chinese judges, scared to death because 200 Chinese students pack-jammed their courtroom, shrieking "There is no justice in China! Death to our judges! Down with Japanese Imperialism! Long live Chinese Communism...
...Removal and "punishment" of General Yu Hsueh-chung, Governor of Hopei Province (containing Peiping and Tientsin), his offense having been too stiff an attitude toward Japan...