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Later, after Kailu and Chaoyang had fallen, correspondents were summoned to the former Imperial Manchu Summer Palace at Chengteh, found Two-Gun Tang seated on a 200-year-old Ceremonial Throne. "The Japanese can have this province," cried Tang passionately, "when all the Chinese are dead! . . . Manchukuo is nothing but a big fake. No Chinese yet has voluntarily joined the Japanese. Even Pu Yi [in his childhood the last Emperor of China, today Regent of Manchukuo] would get out of his present job if he could...
...with fear (as well they might be) hundreds of Japanese Peiping residents as well as North Chinese piled onto trains bound for Central China and Shanghai whither 3,882 cases of Manchu treasures were lately shipped from Peiping by the "Young Marshal," no fool (TIME...
...sense it was. All night long gangs of coolies in ragged padded cotton clothing passed down that roadway dragging creaking carts and wheelbarrows piled high with boxes and packing cases. Three thousand separate cases went that night, 882 more went the next day. Treasure valued at $20.000.000 which the Manchu Emperors of China assembled for 250 years went south, last week, to Nanking and Shanghai...
...these drastic measures were at first announced to include Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, who would have to find the money for a Chinese military adventure and Sun Fo. son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Revolution" of 1911 which overthrew China's ruling Manchu House. Next day Dr. Soong and Mr. Sun denied sponsoring the resolutions which, nevertheless, had passed and produced immediate results. Within a few hours Chinese patriots stole into the British Concession at Tientsin, approached the residence of the Japanese Consul General, threw a bomb which exploded with much noise, little...
...note will be personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...