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...became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships in Nanking, General Li went north to command 50,000 troops he had sent ahead from the south to try to stop the Japanese in Shantung. Shantung's Governor, famed General Han Fu-chu whom Japanese have been trying to win over by bribes, thus had to make up his mind last week, clarioned: "I urge all under my command to vow resistance to Japan until...
Exactly Hollywood's idea of a Chinese War Lord, burly in figure, greasy but intelligent of face, and with a thin mustache is General Han Fu-chu. Japanese have $100,000,000 invested in the Chinese province of which he is Governor, famed Shantung which juts out into the Yellow Sea facing Japan like the chin of a placid prize-fighter all ready to be clouted. Last week Japanese bombing planes continued to hurl at Tsinan. Han's capital, not death-dealing bombs but attractive offers encased in protective lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck...
Chicago Daily News's able China veteran A. T. Steele was last week the only correspondent to reach Shantung's Han. "It was evident." he cabled, "that General Han is a worried and unhappy War Lord-not the self-confident militarist this correspondent met on previous visits here...
...Lord Han shouted: ''I will have no part in such treachery!" as taking bribes from Japan, but Mr. Steele knows his War Lords, chose to stress as the most important Shantung factor the arrival of so many Nanking troops in the province that it was doubtful last week whether Han remained sufficiently master of his province so that he could choose whether to sell out. The Nanking troops had not come fresh and forward into Shantung from Central China but were retreating into it last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken...
...HAN-Richard Lapiere-Harper ($2.50). Laid in 19th Century China, the quiet but well written story of a talented youth whose efforts to become a scholar are sacrificed to the customs of family worship...