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Back from the dead in the great romantic tradition last week came China's glamorous black-banged Butterfly Wu, the fragile cinemactress but durable adventuress, who was supposedly killed by flying shrapnel in the siege of Hong Kong last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang...
...dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien, a Nanking shopkeeper, Ling Tan learned that where these eggs fell in the city, all was reduced to dust; even people were taken apart "as though they, too, were made of clay." Soon Ling Tan went into the city and saw it with his own eyes, and when...
Still carrying on at his desk, although relieved of his post and title by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek because of the catastrophe, was plucky, chubby Mayor K. C. ("Casey") Wu, still proud of his municipal-built dugouts. The confidence of Chungking's fighting little men in their Air-Raid Protective System, still the world's best, was, however, shaken...
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...Chiang. Mme. Chiang flew to Hong Kong: she was going to talk peace with Puppet-Elect Wang Ching-wei. The U. S., British and French Ambassadors met in Shanghai; they were talking peace. They met in Chungking; they were talking peace. Last week Shanghai's onetime Mayor Wu Te-chen was in Hong Kong; he too was rumored making peace feelers...