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...print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week is the same Mr. Lin who in his youth had a job in the Imperial Manchu Government, is today a Red best fitted to do Emperor-homage in the way in which Chinese prefer in their hearts to do almost everything...
...formal pledge by the Government to reconquer from Japan the part of China once ruled by Old Chang the War Lord, and bequeathed by him to Young Chang, namely Manchuria proper or "Manchu...
...original contract for the Canton-Hankow Railway was let by the Imperial Manchu Government in 1898 to American...
China Development Corp. This concern sold its control to Belgian interests whom Chinese suspected of being secret agents for the Imperial Russian Government. In 1905 the Imperial Chinese Government bought back the concession for $6,750,000. At the time the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, some 30 miles of the railway had been completed. In succeeding turbulent years parts of the line were built by fits & starts by Chinese groups to serve their local interests...
Japanese tanks and armored cars escorting Japanese troop detachments rumbled through the main streets and chief business section of Peiping to the famed Forbidden City of the vanished Manchu Emperors. At the gates of the Forbidden City was posted without explanation a heavy Japanese "guard...