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...evening last week a thickset, oval-faced Chinaman with eyes like pinpoints of black steel, strode up and down the station platform at Langfang. The twilight gathered about him. Awed travelers whispered that he was "Little Hsu," the son of "Old Hsu," who was President of China from 1918 to 1922, and that he was the most trusted friend of the present "Chief Executive of China," Tuan...
...Little Hsu" cleared his throat and spat contemptuously in the general direction of the travelers. For a decade he has rejoiced at being known as "the worst hated and most utterly unscrupulous man in China." The travelers drew back and whispered lower...
They recalled that in 1919 "Little Hsu" performed the miracle of marching 10,000 men across the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian steppes to Kalgan and Urga, where he deposed the so called "Living Buddha" (Hutukhtu) and blasted the power of numerous Mongolian...
Admiral Lin of the "independent" Chinese Navy bowed to U. S. Consul General Cunningham at Shanghai and said he was sorry that the Chinese gunboat Haichow had fired upon an American merchantman last December. Captain Hsu of the Haichow also apologized...
...first President of the Chinese Republic was Yuan Shih-Kai, 1913-16; second, Li Yuan-Hung, when he retired on account of a restoration of the Monarchy; third, Peng Kwo-Chang, 1917-18 ; fourth, Hsu Shih-Chang, 1918-22 ; Li Yuan-Hung resumed the Presidency at the request of old Parliamentarians on June 11, 1922 and remained in office until last June...