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...Chinese people against the humiliations imposed by Japan, has worked out so nicely that discerning Frank Hedges, Far-Easter for the Washington Post, recently was able to report that Dictator Chiang now heads "the strongest Central Government in that country since the death of the Empress Dowager, Tzu Hsi"*and has "succeeded in uniting the Chinese people in a way that has not been known for centuries." Japanese suspicions of China are always dire and last week Tokyo commentators opined that Dictator Chiang can only be taking his present strong line if he has recently secured from Dictator Stalin...
Cheng Tien-hsi, the eclat being due to the fact that he assembled and supervised in London the Chinese Art Exhibition which recently had all Europe agog (TIME...
...brave Chinese general is the one who defies Japan. Last week General Pai Tsung-hsi seemed to have qualified. Long rated in Canton as South China's ablest commander, doughty General Pai abruptly sent the South's armies marching northward "against the Japanese." Simultaneously he reviled Tokyo, also reviled the Chinese Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for having let Japan virtually seize North China, and proudly swelled his chest amid shrieking Cantonese plaudits. Only thing odd about all this was that there were no Japanese in the part of China into which General Pai sent troops...
...obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully for Yen Hsi-shan, Shansi's "Model Governor," and Han Fu-chu: Shantung's greedy Governor...
...Japanese were planning to turn the magnificent hunting lodge into a museum, when fire broke out in one of the wings. With extraordinary haste it raged around the open courts, wolfed palace after palace, cleaned up the ruins. Fearful Chinese who watched whispered: "It is the spirit of Kang Hsi...