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Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances...
Marshal Chang is the self-proclaimed defender of foreigners in China, is known to be subsidized by Great Britain and Japan. His troops are the best in China, well drilled, equipped with guns from his own arsenals. Likewise the concubines, the motor cars, the palaces of Chang Tso-lin are the best in China. His might is the only right in North China. Despatches from correspondents of the New York Times and London Times agreed that at the very moment when Senator Bingham and Chang Tso-lin were sipping tea, Marshal Chang's officers were busy with a well...
...become my enemy. A few days ago he died as a revolutionary and arose as a counterrevolutionary. He used fine words about the revolution, but at the most convenient opportunity betrayed it. It is not likely that Chiang Kai-shek will continue to fight against Chang Tso-lin. Down with Chiang Kaishek! Down with the traitor...
Before a threat so awful, despatches told, the entire army halted. Frantically young Chang Hsueh-liang telegraphed his father, Chang Tso-lin, to send still more potent magicians from Peking to break the curse. Soon, by special train, these gentry arrived. They advised that each soldier should break the curse against himself individually by tying a small "magic rag" to his rifle and wetting it with "enemy blood...
Reds Raided. Emboldened by this Northern success, War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, ordered his soldiers to enter the grounds of the Soviet Embassy, and to seize all documents and persons in the various subsidiary offices and outbuildings, sparing only the Embassy itself...