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Same day 130 Chinese were executed in a village half way between Peiping and Tientsin and officials began quarreling over why they were executed. Some said the 130 had been narcotic addicts, others that they had "offended the local authorities by thieving and in various ways," but anyhow they were shot down by a Chinese firing squad...
...treated accordingly."* Though China's face was thus slapped again & again by Japan, Generalissimo Chiang did not waver in his policy of always turning the Christian other cheek. He even had Chinese police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which is the political party of the Generalissimo himself, the only party he permits to exist in China. Anti-Japanese passages have been expunged by Chinese historians from many Chinese schoolbooks on orders...
...hard-hitting British Editor Henry George Wandesfdrde Woodhead of the Peking & Tientsin Times started a campaign in which he "questioned"-to use his own mild fighting word-the advisability of Britain's continuing to devote her share of the Boxer Indemnity to Chinese Education. Editor Woodhead recently recalled in Oriental Affairs: "China at that time was already experiencing considerable trouble from the insubordination of her students, and it hardly seemed credible that purposes mutually beneficial to China and Great Britain would be realized by adding enormously to the number of higher educational institutions...
Eastern Hopei lies between the Great Wall of Peiping and the vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
North China customs receipts dropped 40% in the past three months, but inter nationally more important was the fresh Japanese threat to British trade and British loans guaranteed by Chinese customs collections. In Tientsin last week was hulking, hook-nosed Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...