Word: hsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having resonantly declared his independence of the Nationalist Government fortnight ago (TIME, April 14). General Yen Hsi-shan, "Model Governor" of Shansi, moved rapidly last week, seized the entire customs receipts of the city of Tientsin, with the exception of the 5% assigned the city by the Nanking Government for liquidation of foreign and domestic debts. There will be left some $4,000,000 a year...
...Peiping has been fortunate in possessing an able administration during this entire period, most of them adherents of General Yen Hsi-shan, the 'model governor' of Shansi...
While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December...
...Model Governor" Yen Hsi-Shan, absolute ruler of Shansi Province and 70 million Chinamen, was hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...