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Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, the "Peace Lord" who has kept order in Shansi province for 18 years, recently summoned a congress to Peking to elect him president of China (TIME...
...Model Governor" of Shansi province, which he has in fact erected into an independent island state (surrounded by China), Yen rightly claims the high distinction of having brought prosperity to 11,000,000 souls, the happiest in China today, despite a food shortage in the southwestern part. His hobbies are not women, whiskey, opium or even gold; but good roads, silkworm culture, soldiers for defense, police to preserve order, and the development of superior cattle, horses, plows, poultry, fertilizers?all things of direct benefit to his rustic people...
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...
...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...