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From their monastic quarters near the main temple, the priests dragged the abbot of Paiyunkuan, An Shih-lin, and his favorite priest, Pai Chin-yi. In the flickering light of oil lamps, a bitter trial began. The priestly jury found the abbot and his henchman guilty of illegal relations with women (kept in a house beyond the temple walls); of squandering temple funds (to buy heroin); and of starving two Chinese because they refused to collaborate with the Japs...
Chinese officials winced under the storm, complained that the Americans just did not understand China. Wrote Shih Shih Hsin Pao, former Finance Minister H. H. Kung's own paper, in a painful flash of introspection...
...Young Marshal's punishment was cushioned captivity. It was known vaguely that he was somewhere in a closely guarded countryside villa. Recently Chinese political circles buzzed with rumors that the Generalissimo would send the Young Marshal to Manchuria to counteract the influence of his brother, Chang Hsueh-shih. The Communists have installed Chang Hsueh-shih as governor of strategic Liaoning province, and some Chinese think he is a potential Red candidate for boss of all Manchuria. Last week the rumors boiled down to the fact that the Generalissimo had sent a go-between to call on the Young Marshal...
...shared by "a beautiful and sweet girl who has good handwriting." Her name is Miss Chow. She writes poems and so does Chang. A sample of his verse, smuggled out to a Communist publication, was reprinted at week's end in Banker H. H. Kung's conservative Shih Shih Hsin...
Chungking's Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, announced that the Red Army was keeping Stalin's treaty promise and withdrawing from Manchuria. The evacuation might be completed by November's end; a trickle of Central Government officials was already moving...