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Wayward hackers have been known to place the job security of many a caddy in jeopardy. One of the more dreaded layouts was a quaint nine-hole course on Weihaiwei Island in China that was shut down after the revolution. Sporting greens of packed fine sand instead of grass, its most conspicuous landmarks were an adjacent shooting gallery, an abandoned fort swarming with scorpions, and a short ninth hole which required bouncing a drive off the clubhouse roof...
...Control of seven key ports in North China. With Anglo-U.S. blessing bestowed in Yalta's secret agreements, the Russians are already entrenched at Port Arthur and Dairen. In addition they want Chinwang-tao, Chefoo, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Haichow. They would thus be stationed from the Great Wall south along the Shantung Peninsula, threatening the U.S. position in Korea and Japan. ¶ More food from Manchuria to Russia, though much of China faces famine. ¶ A labor force of 500,000 Chinese to work on projects in the Soviet Union. ¶ More rights for non-Chinese minorities (Turkis...
...Manchuria, nine Communist divisions were pushing toward Tahushan, 65 miles southwest of the government's enclave at Mukden. Capture of Tahushan would block Nationalist efforts to reopen land communications with the Mukden forces. In Shantung, the north coast cities of Weihaiwei, Lungkow and Tengchow had been evacuated by government troops. To the northwest the Reds pressed down on the steadily narrowing Paotow-Tientsin corridor, and wealthy citizens sold their belongings for wads of paper money that they hoped would pay for their flight south...
Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
...Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that the Republican Government promised him but never paid...