Word: formers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still under indictment for murder last week, but by no means under arrest, was that frank and open swaggerthug, General Chang Tsung-chang, rich with the loot of Shantung, his former bailiwick. Fortnight ago Chang was-as he later expressed it-"handling a pistol." The thing went off and killed handsome young Prince Hsien Kai, cousin of China's deposed Boy Emperor Henry P'u-yi ("Henry") (TIME, Aug. 12). The shooting occurred in the garden of Chang's hotel at Beppu, a Japanese island summer resort. Last week the Beppu police made no protest when indicted...
...Emperor of China's cousin is not the dangerous feat that once it was. For one thing the "rightful" Boy Emperor, P'u-yi (alias Henry), is a deposed nobody who dwells under Japanese protection, has deplorably weak eyes, and looks for guidance to his fatherly British friend and former tutor. Dr. Reginald Fleming (TIME...
...hotel's grand suite, occupied by its most prosperous and ugly customer. He and several of his concubines had moved in some time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part of Shantung, terrorized banks and merchants into yielding...
...about Zarna, thus: 'Can't you see, Jason? It's our dooty. The more we love Zarna, the more we got to let her go, even if we have to drive her back to where she belongs . . . a carnival." Returns then to the carnival and her former lover. Zarna, happy...
...London. Mr. Henderson said last week that after a "friendly talk" they had agreed that the resignation should be tendered and accepted. "All went well," concluded the Foreign Secretary with a wink which the House did not miss, "all went well until his Lordship had an interview with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer...