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Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
...tariff on foreign motors is already 40% to 42%. The five U. S. makes which led, last year, in exports to Czechoslovakia were : Cadillac Packard Chrysler Ford Chevrolet trucks Soon the Skoda Arsenal will bring out a very light six in competition with Chevrolet, just as in China the Mukden Arsenal plans to compete with the British Baby Austin by building Baby Dragons...
...great arsenal in Mukden is going to be transformed into an automobile factory, by far the largest in the East. We shall make 'Chinese Dragon' cars and also 'Baby Dragons.' I see no reason why one day China may not export these cars to Europe and America...
...very well are such confident, prophetic words, but at present the Mukden Arsenal is working overtime to produce enough artillery, rifles and ammunition for the latest Chinese civil war. So perfect and efficient are copies of the famed French "75" field gun now made in Mukden, that if ever the arsenal is set to copying motor cars it may prove difficult to tell a "Baby Dragon" from an "Austin Seven." Similarly, tractors are made in Soviet Russia so exactly like those produced by Henry Ford- even to the name plate - that simple peasants to whom they are sold never know...
...order of President Chiang Kaishek, approved by the "Disbandment Conference" (see above), the great Chinese arsenal at Mukden, Manchuria, said to have cost $50,000,000, will be dismantled, and its machinery and equipment carried 1,100 miles southward to the new Chinese capital of Nanking, and there reassembled...