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...best restaurant in Vladivostok, operated by Japanese for the Government, is on a valuta* basis. Rubles are not accepted in payment, only dollars, yen, sterling and marks...
...meet Dastard Chang in Dairen came representatives of China's two highest-minded, purest-hearted itinerant warriors: the "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, former "Model Governor" of Shansi Province (TIME, Sept...
Previously, high-minded, pure-hearted Feng & Yen have fought Chang. But last week they seemed to have something to discuss with the dastard, extorter. mass-murderer and Champion Bad Chinaman. Marshal Chang's behavior in Japan has been exemplary except for having shot, from the window of his hotel, the ex-Emperor of China's cousin, suspected of having fiddled about in the Marshal's harem...
...past twelvemonth potent, progressive President Chiang has brought peace to most of China by driving two rival War Lords out of China, bringing a third into his regime. Nos. 1 & 2 are ex-Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi ("The Model Province") and ex-Generalissimo Feng Yu-hsiang of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...Yen is taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...