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...against the coronation of Japan's Manchu puppet as Emperor of Manchukuo was its onetime ruler the Chinese "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...
Boxer Balance. The same ship that carried discountenanced Warlord Chang Hsueh-liang and his 17 "secretaries" from Shanghai last week also bore Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister to China, going home for a vacation. Earlier in the week he had put the finishing touches to a deal started some months ago when Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law H. H. Kung visited Rome. Still owing the Italian Government is a balance of $2,000,000 in gold from the Boxer indemnity squeezed from the old Empress Dowager...
Chinese too had a New Deal last week. The entire Peiping Government of North China was reshuffled so completely that its Jack of Clubs, the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, vanished from the pack. From Central China came the dealer, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Carrying with him the portable powers of Life & Death, he roared north, preceded and followed by trainloads of Chinese soldiers who had actually been paid, possessed rifles, ammunition and such expensive luxuries as machine guns and bombing planes...
Peiping Next? Scared white lest Jehol's routed troops should pour down through the Great Wall and sack Peiping was "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...
...Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...