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...Days of Ma. The story behind this news was twelve years old, a suppressed fragment of modern history. The story began in the early '30s when years of misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated...
Japan, gorged with Manchurian spoils but hungry for more, reputedly supplied advisers to Ma Chung-ying. Britain, whose Indian empire verged on the area of revolt, watched with interest. Within the Great Wall, Chiang Kai-shek was simultaneously fighting a half-dozen civil wars, trying to bring his bleeding country into readiness for war with Japan. He had no strength to spare for Turkestan...
Vanhattan: The United States, Ma'am, have absorbed all the great national traditions, and blended them with their own glorious tradition of Freedom into something that is unique and universal...
Topmost classification of university agrees held includes those of the All AB & BS variety, numbering 144. Far behind but significantly large, is the scholarly body accredited with both AB and LLB awards, while 14 others hold AB and MA diplomas. Of the remainder, only one was able to enter the course here without college training...
...Ma's Son-in-Law. In Fall River, Mass., George Russell explained to police why he was operating a still: liquor prices were high, and his mother-in-law, 99, "needs a little belt now and then...