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SUMMER had broken, and the slim cedars along Quemoy's roadways bent before the first buffeting gusts of autumn. In the fields, the silver, feathery heads of mao-tsao, a grain used for fuel and fodder, swayed like the plumes of medieval knights. At night the moon was almost full, and the pearl and coral-colored bluffs loomed like phantoms above the beaches, pounded by a foamy sea. In other times it was the loveliest of seasons, it was the loveliest of sights. But this year autumn on Quemoy was a nightmare...
...Hong Kong rumors centered around the head of a Chinese journalist named Tsao Chu-jen, who has a reputation for being both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Tsao had known many prominent Chinese on both sides before the Nationalists were driven from the mainland, had written a book about the generalissimo's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Believing that there was no future for an independent Formosa, and that the best thing for all Chinese was a negotiated settlement with the Communists, he got an encouraging go-ahead from Peking, then wrote to Chiang Ching-kuo, the generalissimo...
...heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between the two countries in the coming year if strategic controls were abolished. The impression left by Mr. Tsao in London last month was that Britain would have to accept remarkable quantities of preserved eggs, bristles and feathers...
...against the Manchu dynasty. He became a Methodist. He also became the servant of a succession of warlords, to each of whom he proclaimed his loyalty with tears streaming down his cheeks; when a more powerful rival appeared, Feng transferred his tears and loyalties to him. In 1923, Warlord Tsao Kun captured China's government and made Feng a full marshal. Once, when Feng visited his boss, he was met by Tsao's private car. Cried Feng: "Heaven above, how dare I, little rascal, use my lord teacher...
Next year, his lord teacher Tsao was fighting the notorious Japanese-backed ex-bandit and warlord, Chang Tso-lin; Feng calmly attacked the rear of Tsao's armies, imprisoned Tsao, and, for a while, became China's "strong man." He removed the better part of the Imperial City's ancient treasures after putting out the ly-year-old Boy Emperor Pu Yi. He allied himself with Chang. He also married the secretary of the Peking Y.W.C.A. (his first wife, a peasant, had just died...