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...Senator Hiram Bingham, onetime Governor of Connecticut, big-boned Honolulu-born Yankee, explorer, archaeologist, World War aviation Lieutenant-Colonel, onetime Yale professor, and father of seven sons (one of whom is studying Chinese in Peking) was set upon in his private car by Chinese soldiers last week, in Honan Province...
...Nanking Government of General Chiang Kaishek; the Honan regime of the "Scholar War Lord," Wu Pei-fu; the Peking Government of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin; the independent and mobile forces of General Yang...
Yellow Magic. To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. As his troop trains rumbled into the province of Honan, little papers by thousands were found strewn along the tracks. When Chang's soldiers read them, they discovered with terror that a mighty brotherhood of magicians, the Red Lances, had imprinted the papers with curses. "Whoso enters Honan to fight her defenders," read the curse, "shall suffer the withdrawal of the protection of his ancestors. Beware...
Since the magicians had brought plenty of "magic rags," from Peking, the grateful soldiers had only to perform the simple task of drawing each a little "enemy blood" in which to dip the rags. Emboldened, valorous, they advanced a considerable distance into Honan...
...Honan province the local "Scholar" War Lord Wu Pei-fu was holding back troops of the Peking War Lord Chang Tso-lin which had been despatched to defend Shanghai from the Nationalists by the Peking-Manchuria faction...