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Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
Among the numerous atrocities of "Little Hsu" one is especially notable. Seven years ago he was the guest of General Lu Chien-chang at Tientsin. While they were walking in the garden, "Little Hsu" whipped out a revolver and shot Lu point blank through the heart. "Little Hsu's" power was at its height at the time, and no one dared to lay a finger upon him. Such was the steely eyed man whom Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui was rumored to be on the point of calling to the post of Premier last week...
...appointment was not made. As "Little Hsu" continued to wait for his train, a shot rang out through the darkness and he fell dead. The next day General Lu Chengwu, son of the man whom "Little Hsu" had murdered at Tientsin, blazoned abroad a proclamation that he had at last avenged his father...
Following the murder of "Little Hsu" (Hsu Shu-tseng) his friend, Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui, announced that he had asked Hsu...
Died. General Hsu Shu-cheng ("Little Hsu"), friend of Tuan Chijui (Chief Executive of China), shot to death at Langfang...