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...Shansi and Shantung to set themselves up as "autonomous" and independent of the rest of China (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935 et seq.). At about this time a Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a toothy and unappetizing Chinese with potent Japanese in-laws, was set up by Japanese soldiers as the satrap of a tiny strategic area adjoining Peiping and Tientsin which he still holds. General Doihara failed miserably so far as Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung were concerned and returned to Japan in semi-disgrace. His intrigue had succeeded, however, in bringing into semi-autonomous existence a Chinese regime more or less...
Sian, the interior city in which the "kidnapping" and series of conferences with Communist leaders occurred (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.), was lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them...
...death was personally ordered by the local military satrap, General Sung Cheh-yuan. Shackled behind a motor car, the prisoner was dragged through the streets of Peiping while buglers blew their loudest and policemen beat up anyone who tried to use a camera. End came near the Peiping garbage dump. There 10,000 people watched the frost-nipped Lu Ju-hsin as he was forced to a kneeling position. Up behind him stepped a snappy Chinese soldier, placed the muzzle of a pistol against the back of the prisoner's head, killed him with a single bullet...
...latest reports from China, pretty much everyone as well as Japan was trying to horn in on the kidnapping, and Sian was becoming almost a forum. Expected momentarily by air was Mr. Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
...Hallett Abend & Anthony J. Billingham (Ives Washburn, Inc. New York, $3). *Died 1908. Her Majesty has just been made the subject of a brilliant biography, The Last Empress by His Excellency Daniele Vare who was then an Italian legation official at Peking (Doubleday, Doran, $3). *Shantung's previous satrap "The Monster," the late notorious General Chang Tsung-chang, overtaxed and robbed the province into starvation. He escaped to Japan with a fortune of millions, murdered a Chinese prince who flirted with one of his concubines, was eventually assassinated when he returned to Shantung seeking further loot. Since 1930 exemplary...