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...Like a rabbit in the outstretched arms of a magician, Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chuang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, vanished in broad daylight last week at Foochow...
...made a great show of trampling on their revolutionary banners, and deserted to the Nationalist standard of advancing Marshal Chiang Kaishek. There was absolutely no resistance at Hankow when spruce Marshal Chiang stepped ashore from a Nationalist river gunboat described as the flagship of so-called Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chwang...
Read out were promotions, demotions. Executed as a salutary reminder of Chang's might was the luckless General Chen Shu-chiang. He had functioned, recently as Chief of Chang's military police, at Peking and was despatched for the (in China) comparatively trifling crime of "blackmailing wealthy citizens...
...echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once, at least...
...Council of the League, Chu Chao-hsin again* exploded a bombshell of anti-British propaganda at Geneva. Meek-eyed, expressionless, he requested the floor for four minutes. While many a delegate yawned, he announced that he would present to the League a copy of the Ku Chin Tu Shu Chi Cheng. This he explained is the Chinese Encyclopaedia, in 800 volumes, containing 800,000 pages, and requiring for storage purposes nine large bookcases...