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Chang Jr., despatches said last week, has now bought himself a trimotored Ford plane, commutes in it between Mukden, his inherited Capital of Manchuria, and Peiping (once Peking). At Peiping his official style is "His Excellency Chang Hsueh-liang, vice Commander of the Army & Navy with Jurisdiction over Four Provinces & Governor of Manchuria...
Chang. Back to Mukden, his capital city in sub-zero Manchuria, the young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang did not go last week. He has been at Nanking in central China, conferring with another "little general," President Chiang Kaishek...
Only important Nationalist defeat of the week was the disheartening return of General Wu Ti-chen, Nationalist government representative in Mukden, Manchuria, to Nanking. Sitting firmly in Mukden is Manchuria's little warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, who rules an area larger than France and Italy together and who inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been...
Months ago, with trunks full of silver and an iron constitution, General Wu Ti-chen went to Mukden to give a few parties for Chang, to make a final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
...coffers empty. He had spent over one million dollars of Nanking government funds, had promised Chang both Peking and Tientsin (if and when recaptured). All he had received was a promise of friendship. Worst of all, Nanking officials learned last week that Smart Chang had actually appointed two Mukden representatives to the Peking government. Reproached for this, Chang replied that his representatives in Peking were there "for sentimental reasons only." After this announcement Chang threw a sop to the Nationalists by sending back to Nanking his official representative, General Wang Chia-cheng, whom he withdrew last year...