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...Ching-wei and the Japanese War office. Still grinning and munching ripe fruit, War Lord Feng pulled out of Peiping on his special train for Tientsin. Half way there he and his regiment changed to an armored train sent up from Shantung Province by his fellow war lord Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung whom he appears to trust. Under Han's protection Feng lived during the summer of 1932 on Taishan, the Sacred Mountain near Confucius' birthplace in Shantung, and proceeded to return there last week "as the climate is good for my asthma." Chinese expected Feng...
Yellow Dragon. Famed for centuries as "China's Sorrow" and the "Curse of the Sons of Han," the Yellow Dragon staged its most spectacular Hood in 1852 when it shifted its entire course from the south side to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Ever since it has discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert...
...hopes but the Overseers have their Baxter the wall. While they may Perry the Corporation's first thrust, they haven't much Lee-way. Now Prexy must be a Munn whose Wadsworth a lot so he will not drive up to the president's house in a second-Han'ford. There is always the grand-father Clark in the corner. But cooney Corporation will pick man whose name can't be punned. Rabbits will win this league...
...scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
Though he withholds the provincial revenues from Finance Minister Soong and does about as he pleases, able War Lord Han leaves Shantung's relations with the Great Powers and the League of Nations to Nanking Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan who writes & receives diplomatic notes for all China...