Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...potent Chinese who thus sounded basso profundo last week was Yen Hsishan, hairy-chested "Model Governor" of Shansi province, the man who has kept his own province peaceable while civil war has festered the rest of China, the leader of this year's spring rebellion against the Nationalist Government...
...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...
Sprawling China presented to the world last week a grim picture in hodge podge. While Peiping boasted of its well-fed, growing population (see p. 24), 4,000,000 famine-shriveled Chinamen, not 400 miles to the west in Shansi and neighboring provinces, looked to almost certain death before spring. Six millions have already died. Shansi women, desperate, advertised themselves as "Hunger Brides," were offering eight and ten ? for husbands who could feed them something besides roots and grasses...
...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...