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...frantic treasure hunt meanwhile was going on for some $30,000,000 ($105,000,000 in Chinese currency) in "small money." This had been "sequestered" by the province's former satrap, General Chen Chi-tang, who had majestically taken "flight" to British Hongkong with his movable treasures. The exciting question was: Could even smart Chen have moved the enormous weight of $30,000,000 in "small money"? He was said to have moved it in chartered British tramp ships which had displayed the Japanese flag as the emblem most likely to insure them against molestation in Cantonese waters before...
...Geneva succeed in having League Sanctions applied on schedule. It was queer, dispatches from Addis Ababa observed, that Italian bombing planes, now well within operating range, not only had not bombed Ethiopia's Capital up to last week but had not even bombed Harar, where the local Ethiopian satrap was having suspected traitors flogged to death. Repeatedly second-string correspondents jumped the gun with rumors which produced last week such headlines as "350,000 ETHIOPIANS DEFEATED IN BATTLE...
...north, meanwhile, Japanese had been busy early last week tying their string to the demilitarized area near Peiping in which Japanese "ronin" provocateurs recently stirred up Chinese farmers to revolt and seize two towns (TIME, Nov. 4). Deriving his authority from Nanking, the Chinese satrap on the spot, General Shang Chen, sat down and made a deal last week with the Japanese Army representative in North China, General Hayao Tada. "The Deal," according to General Shang: "General Tada promised me to control the activities of the Japanese ronin now and in the future. He agreed that I shall send...
...Ethiopia's only railway near Dire Dawa, (see p. 17), faces obstacles of terrain all but insurmountable. It must skirt the blazing, uninhabitable Danakil Desert, worm its way up jagged mountain gorges, cross fever-ridden swamps. Only chance for quick success depended on bribing the local Ethiopian satrap, Ras Yayou, who styles himself "Sultan of Aussa...
...items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose of their conference was simply to decide...