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...free to be representative of the Chinese poems -- there is hardly any close resemblance between the originals and his renditions in most cases. To illustrate: "The Loyal Wife's Song" of Chang Chi on page 86, which was the poet's letter to governor-general Li Shih Tao in the form of a loyal wife's song refusing his improper invitation to office, was translated by Dr. Hart as follows...
...State Stimson laid a wreath at the Pan American Union building in Washington. In New York, Patrick Cardinal Hayes officiated at a requiem high mass. Most of the Latin American Consuls and a gentleman by the name of Emilio C. Diaz who claims official recognition as the last Tao or King of Chibcha Indians of Colombia, buried the base of Central Park's Bolivar statue under wreaths. Great Britain: Members of the Diplomatic Corps attended a requiem high mass in Westminster Cathedral (not the Abbey). Arthur Henderson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, unveiled a tablet in Apsley House...
Last May, Mohammedan villagers in the Tao-chow-ting district of Kansu province rebelled against omnivorous Chinese tax-gatherers, rioted, killed 700 Chinese women and children...
Last July two divisions of ragged Nationalist troops swept through Tao-chow-ting on shaggy Chinese horses, burning, shooting. Three thousand fear-crazed Mohammedans were killed. Hundreds of other Moslems, fleeing along the Hsiat-sang valley toward Tibet were shot down by Tibetan frontier guards...
...August the governor of Kansu declared an amnesty. A long and dusty caravan of Mohammedans flocked back to their homes in Tao-chow-ting. At the city gates fur-hatted sentries with long Russian rifles turned all the men from 15 to 50 aside, ordered them to go to a distant field where they would be given food for their families. At the field hidden machine guns leaped, sparked and rattled. Three thousand men milled like sheep, were shot down in their tracks. Terrified Moslem women, hearing the gunfire, rushed from the city gates, hysterically committed suicide by the bleeding...