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...HSU, Debating, Dramatics...
...East's major conflict, Japan and China have neither broken off diplomatic relations nor declared war. Technically, Japan and China still remain "friendly" nations. Until last January a Japanese Ambassador remained in Hankow, until January Chinese Ambassador Hsu Shih-yin was at his Tokyo post. Even when Ambassador Hsu left, a Chinese charge d'affaires and the Embassy staff remained. Last week, however, even they departed...
...Chinese last week continued their magnificent defense of their so-called "Hindenburg Line" (TIME, March 21), protecting the vital east-west Lunghai Railroad, showed stubborn resistance particularly at Kaifeng, some 300 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. Jubilantly, Chinese General Hsu Pei-ken, press officer to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, declared, "The Japanese are in the soup...
Another piece of frankness unfamiliar to Oriental diplomacy bobbed up last week when word reached Shanghai from Tokyo that the Chinese Ambassador, old Hsu Shih-ying, had padded up to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota's office, expressed a desire on behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous...
Butchered by his soldiers at Sian last week was memorable General Wang Ichi. In 1931 he was one of the very few Manchurian generals to offer brave resistance to the battling and bribing Japanese. Butchered too last week were Colonels Chiang Pin, Hsu Fang and Sung Hsueh-li while others of the Young Marshal's officers escaped or were held "in custody" at Sian...