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Author Maugham writes with few illusions about himself, about his writing. Says he: "This book is the record of a journey through Burma, the Shan States, Siam, and Indo-China. I am writing it for my own diversion . . . I am a professional writer, and I hope to get from it a certain amount of money and perhaps a little praise." Exotic parts have a kind of fascination for Traveler Maugham, but little glamour. His book is consequently better reading than most such records...
...Author Maugham met the old lady who had been the real cause, in her youth, of the British annexation of Upper Burma (Road to Mandalay, TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham...
Having resonantly declared his independence of the Nationalist Government fortnight ago (TIME, April 14). General Yen Hsi-shan, "Model Governor" of Shansi, moved rapidly last week, seized the entire customs receipts of the city of Tientsin, with the exception of the 5% assigned the city by the Nanking Government for liquidation of foreign and domestic debts. There will be left some $4,000,000 a year...
...Peiping has been fortunate in possessing an able administration during this entire period, most of them adherents of General Yen Hsi-shan, the 'model governor' of Shansi...
...Model Governor" Yen Hsi-Shan, absolute ruler of Shansi Province and 70 million Chinamen, was hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...