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Deep in China's southwest, roaming the great mountains of Kweichow where much of the world's mercury is mined and men speak a language called "Miao," feline Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week was stalking Communists, beating them from their lairs, butchering them by hundreds and then thousands-notwithstanding that he is a Methodist of bland and gentle mien...
...Just an effort on the part of Shanghai to advance on the trail of progress blazed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek," Mayor Wu told friends who overwhelmed him with congratulations. "The first Wednesday in every month from now on I will conduct such marriages. The thing has taken hold at once. Already 31 couples have applied for next month. It is all part of Generalissimo Chiang's great 'New Life' movement to regenerate China...
Every Dictator bedevils his people with improvements and in Nanking shrill, wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has been bedeviling Chinese schoolgirls into skirts. Last week skirted schoolgirls humbly petitioned: "At least in cold weather we beg permission to wear the warm trousers to which we were accustomed. Our new garments have resulted in cold legs...
What they were both getting at were Japan's renewed threats of War unless China accepts Japanese "tutelage." If China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is willing to sell Japan a stranglehold on Chinese trade, finance and defense, Japan will do the handsome thing with an $85,000,000 loan. While Chiang mournfully pondered this offer, the Japanese Diet briskly passed Japan's all-time high in budgets, which gives $318,000,000 or 53% for "defense...
Pride of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are the series of great airports which his Nationalist Government is building across north and central China. A new one was nearing completion last week at Haichow, 250 miles north of Shanghai and at the very edge of the Japanese sphere of influence. Out to see the new airport went a trainload of tourists, among whom were 18 toothy, smiling little Japanese in civilian clothes. Sentries met them at the wire gates, guides were assigned to show them around. Hissing polite appreciation, the Japanese went everywhere, promptly unloaded a battery of cameras and began...