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...Chinese styled "guilty" by General Fukuda were troops of the South China Nationalist Government established at Nanking (TIME, April 25, 1927). They recently advanced northward into Shantung in the course of their civil war with the North China Government of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-lin. When the Southern Nationalists captured Tsinan, last fortnight, they became "guilty" in Japanese eyes, because they allegedly committed certain atrocities in Shantung. So omniscient is Japanese efficiency that last week the Government at Tokyo placed on display photographs alleged to have been taken (by General Fukuda's order) of Japanese victims tortured to death...
Washington treaty, to which both the United States and Japan are signatories. . . . "The Japanese have, for a good many years, backed Chang Tso-lin, the Northern Dictator. That is one fact well known. But here is a second fact. We were on our way to Peking to expel Chang Tso-lin when the present trouble [Japanese intervention] commenced. Our army had al ready captured Shantung. The intervention of the Japanese undoubtedly was a godsend to Chang Tso-lin. There you have two facts; all you have to do is to put them together." Dr. Wu's facts are facts...
...Seven Wives and 23 concubines of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, picturesque and barbaric Dictator of North China, recently included a thoroughgoing English woman and a slim young person from the U. S. The majority of Chang's wives and concubines are Chinese, but there are two Opposition factions made up of Japanese and Russians. Of late Dictator Chang is said to have paid more attention to opium than to his parliament of wives...
...ports of the world in normal volume of shipping. Its customs dues are the one large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...
Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, was captured from the troops of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin last week by the armies of the Nanking Nationalist Government. The Peking troops fled to positions on the northern bank of the Yellow River; but meanwhile the Nanking soldiers had become embroiled with Japanese troops who had come up from Tsing Tao to guard the Tsinan Japanese colony...