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When the Allied soldiers broke into Peking's Forbidden City in 1900, they found in that square mile of yellow-tiled palaces the greatest assemblage of treasure in the modern world, collected for over 250 years by the Manchu Emperors. Ever since the fall of the Empire in 1911...
Biggest leak was hollow cheeked Henry Pu Yi, onetime Boy Emperor of China, now chief Whatnot of Manchukuo. Of the portions of the treasure which he was able to carry away, large sections went to Japan, other pieces were sold to private dealers. Last week citizens of Seattle trooped into...
Despondent Chinese patriots cheered up a little when they heard the terms of the truce (TIME, June 5). Though it kept their armies out of an area south of the Great Wall as big as Ohio, and kept Japanese patrols inside to watch for "provocations," it saved face for Chiang...
Foreign officers in Peiping were plainly worried. In normal times there are nearly twice as many U. S. Marines in Peiping as any other foreign troops: 408, as compared with 277 French, 238 British. 177 Japanese, and 95 rather lonely Italians. The Japanese were acting as they acted in Shanghai...
Meanwhile the truce was far from stopping gunfire in China. No sooner did the terms leak out than Chinese war lords were snapping at each other like angry clogs. At Hsuanhuafu, on the Peiping-Kalgan Railway, General Feng Chan-hai (of the "Big Sword" volunteers), leading his Japan-battered troops...