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...greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost his pay gambling. An attempted escape did him no good. At the end of his contract, because he was ashamed to go home as poor as he had left, he signed again...
Peiping, and popped him on the throne in the middle of a July night. With Japanese money and the first airplanes used in a Chinese war, ousted Premier Tuan Chi-sui captured the city a few days later and gave Emperor Hsuan Tung 30 minutes to abdicate...
Thus, little more than eight years ago, swore a persistent little Chinese who failed miserably to consolidate China or to raise her standing, but who popped up again last week, startled the Orient as a man possibly destined to mediate between China & Japan. Despite his own disclaimer, Tuan Chi-jui is not without ability nor undeserving. Convinced that Japan & China must sooner or later become reconciled, Tuan has headed all these years the so-called "Anfu Clique," a group of second-string Chinese statesmen who have kept up cautious contacts with Japan...
...last week Tuan suddenly set out from North China for the Capital, Nanking. "I am going to visit my daughter," said he at first. Later: "I am going to enter a monastery and study Buddhism, after I confer with the government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke out that Tuan was carrying to Nanking secret proposals from the Japanese Government. In Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that...
...When Tuan reached Nanking he professed hostility to Japan (a necessary profession with Chinese public opinion at fury heat as it was last week), then went into a huddle with China's Generalissimo. Marshal Chiang Kaishek. A few hours later Peiping's "Young Marshal" flew down in his sumptuous private plane to Nanking, joined the huddle. If Tuan actually carried an offer from Japan- presumably an offer of peaceful settlement on a basis approximating the status quo-not a whisper of the terms leaked out. Meanwhile, however, the Japanese advance to occupy Jehol Province (TIME...