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...great barbaric war lord of Manchuria and North China, Chang Tso-lin, remained last week the only Chinese still potent enough perhaps to stem the conquering Nationalists their present line along the Yangtze River and .keep them from overrunning North" China as they have South China...
...carefully distinguished from his nominal overlord, the great Chang Tso-lin, "Chang of Manchuria...
...Britons arriving at Shanghai from the North, last week, told how the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin recently sat in at a Mah Jong game at Peking for 37 consecutive hours, tired out three sets of opponents, and finished with approximately the same sum with which he had sat down to play. For a week thereafter, he was unapproachable, ordered cut off the heads of two of his own officers for the usually insignificant offense of forcing their way into a Peking theatre without paying for seats...
...Honan province the local "Scholar" War Lord Wu Pei-fu was holding back troops of the Peking War Lord Chang Tso-lin which had been despatched to defend Shanghai from the Nationalists by the Peking-Manchuria faction...
Today, in Peking at the semibarbaric court of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, Mrs. Wellington Koo is par excellence the cosmopolitan aristocrat of feminine China...