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Next Thursday, October 4. Owen Lattimore will give an illustrated lecture on "The Desert Road to Turkestan" in the Fogg Museum at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture is given under the Harvard Yen Ching Institute, and is open to members of the University...
...leave his personal army in the field, at a considerable distance from Peking, while he rushed to Nanking because of disagreement within the Nanking Nationalist Executive Council. Thus the first troops to march into Peking were 6,000 orderly soldiers of Chang's ally (nominally his subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken...
Soon General Pao reported to the indignant but helpless Diplomatic Corps at Peking that Feng's troops had refused Pao's men passage through their lines, thus having repudiated the safe conduct of "Model Governor" Yen...
...already been paid for the only person about to be hurt by destroying these particular goods is the Chinaman owner. They recalled that a shrewder thrust against Japan is being made by rich Chinamen in many parts of the world who are reported to be speculating again the Japanese yen in such fashion as may cause it to become seriously depressed on international exchange...
...efficient Tokyo Beggars' Association promulgated, recently, a system of "begging in relays" whereby the average begging day will be reduced to three hours and much duplication of effort eliminated. The sum of 70 yen per month ($35) was mentioned and denounced as the record of certain notorious renegades who persist in begging steadily...