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Best, most honorable of Chinese War Lords is great Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of rich and peaceful Shansi Province, almost the only part of China not ravaged by incessant civil war. Last week Yen came out at the small, painful end of a spacious adventure. He had captured Peking, proclaimed himself President (TIME, July 12), sought to make all China a prosperous Shansi?and miserably failed...
...gardens of the once Imperial City at Peking a Chinese band groaned and squeaked last week. Delighted by this music, a huge crowd gathered to watch the formalizing of a "government"' created some weeks ago when Marshal Yen Hsi-shan simply announced that he is "President...
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan carried out his threat of last May to seize the customs revenues at Tientsin (port of Peking). He will continue to pay foreign holders of Chinese bonds their lion's share of the receipts, expects to pocket a nice surplus of $600,000 per month...
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, the "Peace Lord" who has kept order in Shansi province for 18 years, recently summoned a congress to Peking to elect him president of China (TIME...
Deep-voiced, hairy-chested Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, who is carving out a State for himself in northern China (TIME, Feb. 24), boldly decreed last week that his chief city shall again be called "Peking," meaning "Northern Capital...