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Deep-voiced, hairy-chested Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, who is carving out a State for himself in northern China (TIME, Feb. 24), boldly decreed last week that his chief city shall again be called "Peking," meaning "Northern Capital...
...Yen's re-christened capital one Dr. Tchou Gao-hsing assumed the title of "Foreign Minister," announced last week to the Great Powers that the marshal will shortly call a People's Congress in Peking to elect Yen the President of all China, and that President Yen will have as his war minister famed General Feng Yu-hsiang, redoutable master of the largest private army in the world: 150,000 men (TIME, July...
...coincidence that exactly 18 months ago General Feng, far from being Yen's war minister in Peking, was actually President Chiang's war minister in Nanking...
...week that they must accept a 20% wage cut because of the falling price of cotton goods. "Why is it then," asked a blunt workers' delegate, "that you continue to pay 35% dividends? Why have you just voted your chairman, Mr. Sanji Muto, a bonus of 3,600,000 yen...
...sold, because of lack of facilities. The stock exchange in Osaka kept open without incident last week, and since no U. S. stocks are traded on the Tokyo exchange, the chief U. S. reaction to Tokyo's closing was a drop of .6¢ in the value of the yen at New York...