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...Meanwhile Chinese terrorism continued. In Shanghai, fortnight ago, the puppet secretary of the city's Japanese-controlled Police Bureau, Dr. Hsi Shih-tai, was assassinated as he walked in the street with his wife. This was the 17th political murder in Shanghai since January 1. In Tientsin the Chinese manager of the Japanese-owned Federal Reserve Bank was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. In Kaifeng, Chinese mercenary troops hired by the Japanese mutinied and murdered four puppet officials. All Japanese reports said: "Apparently something happened in Kaifeng...
...Graduate School of Engineerin: Gordon McKay scholarships to Hong Huang of Tai-chow, China, Kenneth S. Lane of Concord, New Hampshire, and Leang Pieh-Yeh of Canton, China...
...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
...before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...degenerate English, Tahitian, and Pitcairn-coined words. He heard children say, "see ahse scauws zsegoin out da big ship" ("see the boats going out to the big ship"); and, "pfwat youall comee do diffy daffy?" ("why are you coming to do this and that?"). A few words, such as "tai-tai" (tasteless), are retained from the Tahitian although long since obsolete on Tahiti itself...