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...part in last week's shooting remained uncertain. Some dispatches had him on his way to the scene of the fighting "by caravan" from Tibet. But certain it was that on the scene was an old and faithful Wu mi, Wu's infatuated right-hand man, Mr. Pai Chien-wu, himself a descendant of an 8th Century poet. What happened...
...Peiping, the Chinese Governor whom the Japanese had ousted had conveniently left behind an armored train lolling at a junction ten miles south-west of Peiping. Early one evening last week some 60 Chinese and Koreans in civilian clothes, armed and led by Mr. Pai Chien-wu, boarded the train, rallied the Chinese troops and set out for the ancient walls of Peiping. The track the train was on leads for about ten miles along the southern Outer Wall of Peiping, passes the great central gate of Yungtingmen and ducks through a tunnel into the Outer City. Pai Chien...
Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang's army of 50,000 was put to absolute rout by Nationalist & Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi, who took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such...
While in Peking the Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi swaggered riotously with 2,000 Mohammedan stalwarts...