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...government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke out that Tuan was carrying to Nanking secret proposals from the Japanese Government. In Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that "since nothing can be expected from the League of Nations, the Manchurian dispute is leading toward direct negotiations with Tokyo...
...Japanese troops were commanded by Major Ochiai, sometime military instructor to the troops & officers of China's "Young1 Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, the very troops & officers who were defending Shanhaikwan last week. Less than two years ago some of the Chinese officers sent popular Major Ochiai a floral tribute of chrysanthemums, Japan's imperial flower. Last week posies were forgotten...
...bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route Army to North China...
...only leader of modern China who has inherited his authority is the well-meaning, hollow-eyed young man known throughout China as "The Young Mar-shal," Chang Hsueh-liang. He is the deposed warlord of Manchuria and, until last week, ruler of Peiping and the surrounding province. Last week destiny caught up with him and with the rest of China. Chang Hsueh-liang is the son of Chang Tso-lin, one of the most picturesque Chinese characters to emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made...
...Cantonese leader who joined his old enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...