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...editor, Chu Hsin-kung, has received a severed human hand in the mail...
...Yangtze near Ichang (in free China, 485 miles upriver from Hankow), Japanese bombers returning from killing natives sank two foreign vessels, the Jardine, Matheson & Co. river boats Kiawo and Hsin Chang Wo, and narrowly missed the river gunboat Gannet. British naval authorities suspected a new Panay incident-a test of what Britain would do in answer to direct, unprovoked attack...
Sable Cicada (Hsin Hwa Motion Picture Co.). In 1938. foreign pictures, by & large, were better than Hollywood pictures. In 1939, U. S. audiences will doubtless see more foreign pictures of all sorts than ever before. Sable Cicada, released in Manhattan last fortnight, is one of the first Chinese pictures made for foreign devils as well as for domestic showings. Likely to be shown only in a few small theatres in big cities, it is nevertheless important as a symptom of an ambassadorial trend...
...telephone or reading his mail or telegrams during the week, the Christian Marshal could only browbeat lesser officials and they timidly tried to appease him with just a little death. After Feng had stormed for hours, Peiping police produced a half-frozen individual by the name of Lu Ju-hsin, saying they had caught him on a bicycle with 60 ounces of narcotics...
...Cheh-yuan. Shackled behind a motor car, the prisoner was dragged through the streets of Peiping while buglers blew their loudest and policemen beat up anyone who tried to use a camera. End came near the Peiping garbage dump. There 10,000 people watched the frost-nipped Lu Ju-hsin as he was forced to a kneeling position. Up behind him stepped a snappy Chinese soldier, placed the muzzle of a pistol against the back of the prisoner's head, killed him with a single bullet...