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...bounced across north Szechwan, Tso Tsen-hwa, tax collector for the Chinese Government, sat squeezed among his fellow passengers and their luggage. Suddenly the brakes screeched. Outside were eight bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bashful Bandits | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...passengers were lined up, stripped of money and valuables. Tso Tsen-hwa was the last man in line. When the bandits reached him, he spoke out: "At last I have caught you! I am the tax collector. You are engaging in business and you are evading taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bashful Bandits | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...bandits were ashamed. They stood by as Tso Tsen-hwa inspected their loot, calculated its value at $5,000,000 (Chinese, inflated). "The business tax," he said, "is 3.35%; $120,000 will be sufficient. Since Government regulations provide that itinerant traders may pay their taxes directly to the collector, I will class you as itinerants and conclude the transaction on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bashful Bandits | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Fact. The Chinese Government asked Donald to establish a Bureau of Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard to Get | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Another Mansfield high. Previous one: Communist Lin Tso-han's 470,000 (TIME. Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Chiang is China | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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