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Observers recalled that Chang Tsung-chang has the reputation of being China's "basest War Lord," keeps a string of over 100 concubines, and has often put to death every living soul in captured villages. His superior, the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, evidently instructed that Mme. Borodin should be gently treated because of the might of Soviet Russia...
...Nanking Government of General Chiang Kaishek; the Honan regime of the "Scholar War Lord," Wu Pei-fu; the Peking Government of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin; the independent and mobile forces of General Yang...
...atrocity, dignified by the title of "execution," concerned 40 Chinese seized in a raid on the grounds of the Soviet Embassy at Peking (TIME, April 18), in violation of international law. Seized also were various documents which Chang Tso-lin's own interpreters translated as they pleased. These were introduced as evidence at a secret trial last week, and half the 40 prisoners were ordered strangled. They were not told which were to be strangled, which imprisoned or set free. They were simply herded into a compound a short distance from where Senator Bingham and War Lord Chang were...
Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times cabled that Chang Tso-lin explained to Senator Bingham: "I maintain order. I will not allow anti-foreignism in my territory...
...Associated Press later reported: "Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, after an interview with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the Northern Chinese leader, yesterday, was the guest of the Anglo-American Association at luncheon today. He made a speech recounting humorously his adventures as an explorer in Latin-American countries...