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Sanctions. The main demands under this heading are for the punishment of officials who are considered responsible for the bandit episode: General Tien Chung-Yu, Military Governor of Shantung; General Chang Wen-Tang, commander of the Puchow railway police; General Ho Feng-Yu, Defense Commissioner at Yenchowfu; Chao Te-Chao, officer commanding the guard on the train. All these persons are never again to be employed in the public service. The note also animadverts sharply on the lack of security for foreigners in China...
...ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill a Sheherazade to the noble Mandarin...
That America is now training the future leaders of China in political, social, economic, and educational projects is the statement of Tien Lan Lin, president of the Chinese Students' Club of Princeton, and Treasurer of the Students' Christian Association. In an article published in the Princetonian, he says, in part...
...Beale went to Pei Yang University, at Tien Tsin, China, as professor of English and History. Here he took charge of athletics and organized the first successful intercollegiate track meet ever held in China. At the outbreak of the revolution, the University closed and Mr. Beale devoted himself to an investigation of the turbulent scenes...
...many years Lieutenant Gammon has held a commission from the Chinese government. He was with the allied armies during the Boxer uprising and was at the siege of Tien Tain. At that time he was largely influential in bringing relief to the sufferers. After the war Lieutenant Gammon returned to America, where he has delivered many lectures in all parts of the country concerning his experiences in China. The views which will be shown tonight are from photographs taken by himself during his stay in the far east...