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Tonight at 7.15 o'clock Professor L. C. Porter, Exchange Professor from Yen-Ching University, will speak on "The Japanese in Manchuria Right or Wrong?" in the Junior Common Room...
...have grown phenomenally in numbers. They sell better goods than other Russian stores at lower prices-but there is a catch. Torgsin sells only for "valuta," a pre-War Russian word meaning "foreign money." Thus no Russian can buy at Torgsin except by offering dollars, francs, marks, pounds, yen, etc., etc. Also no Russian is permitted to exchange rubles into valuta (except by special Government permit, rarely given). In effect Torgsin stores are baited traps to catch the valuta of tourists, foreigners employed in Russia and emigres. The State desperately needs valuta to purchase abroad machinery for the Five-Year...
...their country with new ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret agents have discovered Communist "cells" in almost every native battalion, in almost every village. France smote hard. French troops and a regiment of the Foreign Legion were rushed from Syria. Mme Guillotine raised her gaunt arms...
...today. President Chiang threatened fortnight ago to declare war on Japan (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week he kept quiet, despatched urgent wires to northern War Lords who might join in a fight with Japan. Two of these, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang "The Christian General" in Inner Mongolia and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan "The Model Governor" are doughty battlers whose names are Chinese household words. If they joined President Chiang, and they have joined him before (TIME, Dec. 24,1928), China could oppose Japan with perhaps 200,000 trained and equipped soldiers, plus a rag-tag & bobtail...
...Tokyo. Born Yuko Mizoguchi, he was adopted by a rich Samuraian, married his daughter and took his name, but in politics he was always the champion of the people. Rising to leadership of the Minsei-to (Liberal) party, he became Minister of Finance in 1924, restored the yen and helped rehabilitate the country devastated by the 1923 earthquake. He became Premier in 1929 and in the face of bitter opposition and active plotting obtained Japan's adherence to the London naval limitation treaty. After the treaty was ratified a fanatic shot him. Four months later he resumed his duties...