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...Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial bombing gave evidence of broken spirit. . . . Air raids at Hsi Feng Kou and again at Chi Hsien gave tragic proof of the nonsanctity of hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing...
...place called Tu Mu (near Huai Lai-hsien) they waited five hours for a train only to find it a freight bursting with rebel soldiers retreating before the influx of troops from Manchuria. Minister Johnson climbed aboard, "rode the rods" to Kalgan, kept the soldiers in high Chinese glee by translating some of his more successful U. S. anecdotes...
...story: a boatman of Wan Hsien becomes embroiled in an argument with an overbearing American who, during the altercation, falls off the quay, is drowned. Lying in the harbor is H. M. S. Europa, whose commander, immediately upon hearing of the accident, declares that a white man has been murdered and demands as restitution a fitting funeral, indemnity, the lives of two members of the boatman's guild. If he is not given satisfaction he will destroy the town. As he threatens, his great grey fortress slides forward and the hard mouths of his guns glower down upon the frightened...
...brother, Prince Hsien Lung, has recently been poor, is probably richer now. After listening briefly to Chang Tsung-chang he said cheerfully to reporters: "I am sure it must have all been quite accidental...
...Tokyo a Japanese newspaper gilded the lily with a story of how slain Prince Hsien Kai had probably been attentive to one of Chang's numerous "wives." Wrote the ingenious Tokyo editor: "Chang, who at one time has had as many as 40 wives, could not bear, the police believe, to see anyone take liberties with even one of them...