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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...
As a result of the "little generals' " conference young Chang, who inherited Manchuria and $10,000,000 from his famed, barbaric father Old Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928) set himself up last week in Peiping (once Peking), prepared to reside there permanently as Governor of the North...
Year ago Nelson Trusler Johnson, energetic new U. S. Minister to China, arrived in Peiping, gave foreign correspondents the shock of their lives by delivering a long fluent speech in perfect Chinese.
Minister Johnson set out from Peiping on foot, in his shirtsleeves, puffing a cheap Chinese cigaret, carrying a felt-covered canteen of chow (boiled) water at his hip. With a few strong-footed friends he tramped through the Western Hills of Chihli Province to find an ancient Trappist monastery that...
"The affability of the Chinese was their most marked characteristic," said he, back in Peiping last week.