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Taierhchwang--Chinese expand their great victory in South Shantung Province--Thousands of Japanese killed--The Chinese reported besieging trapped Japanese garrison in the provincial capital, Tsinan-Fu--Japanese reported rushing reinforcements from north and west...
...China's Dictator Chiang Kai-shek resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law (1 T. V. Soong, 2 Wu Pei-fu, 3 H. H. Kung, 4 Chang Hsueh-liang, 5 Eugene Chen...
Meanwhile, however, rumors that General Han Fu-chu, the able, progressive former Governor of Shantung, had been executed for failure to resist the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 24) were followed last week by definite news that he had been executed at Hankow by a firing squad. Said Shanghai's Daily China Press, which the distant Chinese Government still controls: "The shamelessness of many Chinese generals in the recent past is indeed appalling. Even in the days of the defunct [Imperial] Manchu regime responsible generals were wont to resort to suicide in attempts to redeem their personal honor...
...standing has ever committed suicide because he lost territory or for defalcation of duty. It follows then, that if in them a sense of shame was not born it must be instilled in their minds by an example such as is now provided by the execution of Han Fu...
...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...