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Wearing only one pistol, a big black .45, Two-Gun Tang alighted from his pony, served tea, faced questions...
While grim Japanese moved to crush Jehol in the jaws of a major offensive, short, stout, redoubtable Governor Tang Yulin put on a one-man Chinese rodeo in his yamen at Chengteh, delighted correspondents with Chinese cowboy feats. (Jehol has been called China's "Wild East...
Spurring full speed on a shaggy Mongolian pony, War Lord Tang flourished his repeating rifle, drew bead on a stationary target, riddled its bulls-eye with lead. ''Marshal Tang is also a dead pistol shot," boasted one of his officers. "He shoots with his left hand, with his right and with both hands at once...
...hearten War Lord Tang last week, young Marshal Chang and famed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong who is now "Acting Premier" made the unprecedented move (for Chinese statesmen) of venturing into the threatened province, Jehol. Bumping out from Peiping, risking a Japanese bombing raid on their way, they entered Chengteh through a triumphal arch provided by War Lord Tang...
...very last, the Japanese hoped they could buy Jehol's Tang. Finally Japan's puppet Regent of Manchukuo, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, denounced Tang as a "renegade," took away his empty title "Vice Chairman of the Privy Council of Manchukuo" and bestowed on the Japanese-Manchukuo forces advancing upon Jehol a splendidly euphemistic name: The Jehol Pacification Expeditionary Forces...