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...freed Chinese farmers from 4,100 items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose...
...Over these bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...
After a long search for the highest possible ground where they could carry on experiments to be conducted for six months, the group chose the plateau at the edge of Tibet, which they could reach from India. The site of the camp will be near the shore of Lake Tso-Moriri, recently surveyed by a Yale geologist, at altitudes of from 17,000 to 22,000 feet. Starting from Bombay the expedition will go north through Kashmir and 400 miles across passes as high as 17,000 feet...
...Chorus, gives a good, but by no means brilliant performance in a rather colourless part. Mrs. Coburn also does well as Chee Moo, the first wife of Wu Sin Yin the Great. But the whole business is a definitely pedestrian affair. The only really attractive character is Tso (Mary Hutchinson). As the scheming maid she is intriguing...
...cannot praise too highly Mussolini and Hitler. What men! I am only a small man now. The Chinese people will not like this cor onation. They have never liked the idea of a crowned ruler since the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Had my own father. Marshal Chang Tso-lin, been crowned I should have wanted to kill...