Word: pao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. John Calvin Ferguson, 79, longtime adviser to Chinese governments, founder and first president of Nanking University, ex-president of Nanyang College (now National Ch'iao Tung University), onetime Shanghai newspaper publisher (Sin Wan Pao, Shanghai Times), Chinese art authority; in Clifton Springs, N.Y., 20 months after his repatriation from Jap internment at Peiping...
Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
...more practical vein, the Chung Yang Jih Pao added that nine out of ten U.S. cars brought to China will be left there after the war, and all these cars are built for right-hand driving...
...move to check corruption in handling military supplies, a five-man military tribunal sentenced to death three high officers in the Chungking supply service: Major General Liang Lin (former mayor of Changsha), Major General Huang Yao, Colonel Pao Yunfei. Liang was convicted of "stealing military materials and of squeeze and extortion." Huang was convicted of receiving 4,100,000 Chinese dollars ($205,000 official rate) rake-off in purchasing military supplies. Pao had made 1,400,000 Chinese dollars from a building contract. All three were shot...
Chungking felt better. A month ago, with beaten Chinese armies everywhere in retreat, the atmosphere had been black with gloom. Now the Americans were back on Luzon. In three months' time, predicted the Army newspaper, Sao Tang Pao, U.S. armies would storm China's coasts looking for the Jap. But no U.S. source backed up this optimistic prediction...