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...then woe to China, no matter who murdered the Japanese Marine. As a matter of course, Admiral Araki assumed the killer to be Chinese, posted some 2,000 Japanese bluejackets with fixed bayonets "defending the scene of the crime" and blustered at the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Quaking General Wu Teh-chen, who officially promised four times in succession: "I will do everything in my power!" Fresh woe for Wu developed when a mob smashed the plate-glass window of one of Shanghai's Japanese-owned stores. As panicky Chinese ran for the International Settlement an attache of Japan...
...Gray Robie, r. f. r. f., Brittenham Powell, l. f. l. f., Hamilton Burbank, r. h. r. h., Essley R. Scott, c. h. c. h., Gillis Vincent, l. h. l. h., Lindsay Dawson, r. o. r. o., Arino T. Motley, r. i. r. i., Kron Kelley, c. c., Wu E. Motley, l. i. l. i., Ceballos Wood, l. o. l. o., Waxman...
...Wu's part in last week's shooting remained uncertain. Some dispatches had him on his way to the scene of the fighting "by caravan" from Tibet. But certain it was that on the scene was an old and faithful Wu mi, Wu's infatuated right-hand man, Mr. Pai Chien-wu, himself a descendant of an 8th Century poet. What happened...
...Peiping, the Chinese Governor whom the Japanese had ousted had conveniently left behind an armored train lolling at a junction ten miles south-west of Peiping. Early one evening last week some 60 Chinese and Koreans in civilian clothes, armed and led by Mr. Pai Chien-wu, boarded the train, rallied the Chinese troops and set out for the ancient walls of Peiping. The track the train was on leads for about ten miles along the southern Outer Wall of Peiping, passes the great central gate of Yungtingmen and ducks through a tunnel into the Outer City. Pai Chien-wu...
Feeble and foolish though all this was, it was enough to thrill all China with the rumor that the Great Wu had stirred himself, would presently arise to sweep the Japanese out of North China. Significantly Japanese Army officers, who normally love nothing better than a good provoking "incident," disclaimed all interest in the episode, described it as a "small mutiny" in the Chinese armies...