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Governor Liu Huan-yen of Kwangsi Province went out for a stroll in his garden one evening last week, followed as usual by his bodyguard. As the Governor stooped to admire the moonlike beauty of a lotus blossom, a shot rang out. Down he crumpled in the garden path mortally wounded, died later in hospital...
...Marshal Yen Hsi-shan carried out his threat of last May to seize the customs revenues at Tientsin (port of Peking). He will continue to pay foreign holders of Chinese bonds their lion's share of the receipts, expects to pocket a nice surplus of $600,000 per month...
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, appeared to have captured the Honan airplane base of his enemies by a surprise onslaught of his famed "Big Sword Cavalry...
...Yen is not a Christian but many of his methods are Christocratic. He likes to think that Confucius is his guide, but his attitude toward Christians is benevolent, and he has not hesitated to seal an alliance with Feng, the "Christian Marshal," who is to be war minister in the Peking Government shortly to be organized by Yen as president...
Japan taught both Yen and Chiang to fight. They were students at the Imperial Military College, Tokyo. Both came of prosperous people. Both got their political start in the revolution of 1911. Both are good men, Yen a Chinese Vermonter, Chiang a Chinese Virginian...