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Last week Young Chang, now Dictator of Manchuria since Old Chang is dead (TIME, July 2), invited General Yang to a game of Mah Jong in Mukden, remote Manchurian Capital. Also sitting in was General Chang Yin-huai, another faithful officer of old times. Softly the tiles rattled, and courteously the game began. Not until midnight neared did Young Chang excuse himself momentarily, leaving the Generals in mellow mood over wine and sweetmeats...
Such were circumstantial details flashed from Mukden via Japan to the U. S. Since the Japanese are no friends of Young Chang, confirmation must be awaited. Quite another story which seeped out of Mukden was that "Ludendorff" Yang was unmasked in a plot to oust Young Chang, discovered to have "misappropriated" staggering sums, and presently shot as a traitor before a firing squad...
...succeeded in breaking off an arrangement whereby the young Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-liang, had agreed, last week to place himself in subordinate alliance with the Nationalists. Lastly, Chang was not only compelled by the Japanese to break his agreement, but was detained in his own capital, Mukden, by Japanese troops who clamped a censorship upon all means of communication. At this point the new Nationalist State, not yet recognized by any Great Power, stood badly in need of such moral support as could be given, for example, by the U. S. To a certain blatant U. S. newspaper...
...seventeen days served to enable Son & Heir Chang Hsueh-liang to consolidate his position with apparent success, so that last week he proclaimed himself War Lord at Mukden, Manchuria, and admitted that he had inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure...
...confused with and not related to: 1) The great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, recently dictator at Peking, subsequently bombed in Mukden, Manchuria, and rumored to have died last week; or 2) Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the War Lord, and superior officer of Marshal Chang Tsung-chang...