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Traveling with a suite which included his Venerable Mother, three of his numerous wives, half a dozen of his staff members and his suites, Marshal Chang steamed over to Dairen. Manchuria?his usual jumping off place for a plunder-raid on China...
...taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...With 43 "attendants" (many female) a handsome Chinese in the prime of life landed last week in hospitable Japanese Dairen...
...effort to reduce costs, New York Steam maintains a large staff of engineers, does valuable research on combustion. Recent visitors to the plant have included technicians from the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway Co. which is considering installing similar service in the city of Dairen. A factor which has worried stockholders is the impression that Manhattan winters are becoming less severe. In its annual report, New York Steam discoursed upon this at length, concluded no such change is taking place...
Anxious as was Russia for the C. E. R., last week, was Japan, China's other neighbor on the left, for her South Manchuria Railway which cuts north from the great Japanese port of Dairen to Changchun, where it connects with the C. E. R. Ingeniously wangled from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, the S. M. R. is today worth $220,000,000, keeps the Japanese Colony of Korea fed with Manchurian wheat and soya beans. Its 700 miles of track are guarded by 20,000 soldiers against just such an attack as last week befell...