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Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...
Born. To T. L. Soong, 50, Chinese financier, younger brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi Soong, 24, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, representative in Washington, of China's Ministry of Finance: a daughter, their first child; in Washington. Weight...
...Meanwhile one vehicle of interfaith cooperation among China's religions was already functioning in the All-China Inter-religious Associa tion. Its board members : Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin (now in the U.S.), Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen, Buddhist Abbot Tai Hsu, Moslem General Pai Chung-hsi...
...pleasant to Itagaki's ear. But he cannot listen to the call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout...
Married. T. L. Soong, 48, Chinese financier, brother of Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi, 23-year-old Manhattan art student, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, general manager of the Central Bank of China; in Manhattan...