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...Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines to provide him with heirs...
Gratitude is one of the virtues General Yeh Peng admires most. Dr. Skinner's offices are in the riverfront building of Asiatic Petroleum Co., and to that building went a military procession, including a 50-piece brass band and a car bearing officers of General Yeh Peng's staff. Attached to the hood of the car was a white banner five feet wide, blazoned with characters big as a man's head that every literate Chinese could read...
...ILLUSTRIOUS DR. ALEXANDER SKINNER THE GRATITUDE OF UNWORTHY GEN. YEH PENG FOR BEING CURED OF PILES IS DEEP SEATED AND ETERNAL...
...British cruiser Capetown lay at anchor, with a private telephone cable running ashore. At retreat, night after night, Chinese ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...
...call was transferred to the office of Surgeon Skinner who explained, delicately, that General Yeh Peng had come to thank him for professional services...