Word: shansi
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...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...
...temperature of slightly less than Zero Fahrenheit in the famine areas of Shantung, Shansi and other North China provinces last week killed some 15,000 starveling humans. The ears of the world are deaf to this particular need for charity because it has persisted for so long (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.). Even the Red Cross has ceased to give aid. Now and then it should be remembered that roughly 12,000,000 Chinese stomachs are suffering the gnawing pains of slow starvation. Use less to repeat that thousands of parents are eating their children when they can catch...
...Feng. Last week a stable China united under one government seemed nearer fulfillment than at any time in the past 18 years. Feng's armies and dominions, it was announced, were to be turned over to Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, strong ally of the Nationalists, "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...
Chinese alibis being what they so often are, it was freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the station stood slender, waspish President Chiang Kaishek, and strapping War Minister Feng Yu-hsiang. As Yen joined Chiang and Feng, press photographers snapped "China's Big Three...