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China's biggest, thorniest problems lie in the famed Eastern province of Shantung. Famine stalks through groveling villages, and the towns are mostly held by a Japanese expeditionary force, similar to U. S. Marines in Nicaragua. Last week, however, there were signs that Shantung's problems will soon be mightily wrestled with by China's big, pious, go-getting Christian, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
...China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
...cannot brandish the mailed fist at one's neighbor and then complain if he shows unfriendliness. I now believe in the sincerity of Japan's desire to enter once more into negotiations with our Government. . . . As soon as negotiations for the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung are completed, we must despatch our own best soldiers to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists there. . . . Since we are now awaiting the arrival of the new Japanese Minister [to China, M. Yoshizawa], I suggest that he be greeted in the friendliest manner possible and every effort made...
Since the private army of Marshal Feng unquestionably contains the Nationalist Government's "best soldiers," there is no question that the War Minister means to police Shantung with his own men. Doubtless that would be well for the desperate, starving Shantungese. If they are not to perish many a hard job must be done, just such job as Feng's tough soldiers are well schooled to do-farming, road building, weaving, dike construction, and rehabilitation of areas ravaged by China's civil...
...successor, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches was laboring with but indifferent success to recognize the China Famine Relief Fund Inc. and collect the still lacking $9,700,000. Thousands and almost certainly millions of the Chinafolk now starving in Shantung will die before anything can be done...