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Seemingly all effective Chinese resistance to Japan in Manchuria had been crushed last week. Only at Chinchow, far to the south of Manchuria and near China proper, was there any large group of Chinese soldiers who might do battle. To hearten them Chinese President Chiang Kaishek at Nanking-1,000 miles south announced in the flamboyant vein of General Ma that he would personally rush north "to direct the offensive and avenge China's honor." But President Chiang did not stir out of Nanking last week...
...Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
...Hull House; received and was photographed with a delegation of the National Council of Catholic Women; agreed to open the loth Olympic Games at Los Angeles, July 30, which he may take in his stride while campaigning in the West for a second term; sent greetings to President Chiang Kaishek of Republican China on the latter's 20th birthday; sat long with his Cabinet discussing Japan's inroads upon Chinese terrain...
Still further trouble for the Nationalists arrived with the Japanese reply to a note protesting anti-Chinese riots in Korea. The reply was "unsatisfactory" to Chiang Kaishek. While drafting a second note and contemplating a Japanese boycott, the Nationalists were alarmed to hear that Rebel General Shih Yu-san was receiving advice from many a Japanese military specialist...
...last week the new laws had made little mention of divorce. Formerly husbands could declare themselves divorced, as did famed Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, and marry again without much trouble; dissatisfied wives had to bear their lot. The December enactments of the Yueh Fa gave wives the right to instigate proceedings, but did not specify the proceedings. Last week Dr. Wang's theories on divorce became Chinese statutes...