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...Yen Hsi-shan, Super Tuchun of Shansi, so-called "model province," who last week threw in his lot with the Nationalists, after months of alleged political bargaining. He has long been considered the kingpin in the Chinese situation; if he joined Chang Tso-lin, then the Nationalist cause was doomed; if he joined the Nationalists, then the fall of Peking might be considered certain and Chang driven back to Manchuria...
Nationalist Armies concentrated in the Nanking-Shanghai area and commanded by a military council of five members (TIME, Oct. 3). Onslaught. For variously attributed reasons, the most popular being Bolshevik machinations, Yen joined forces with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking...
...further bill passed by the Imperial Parliament authorized the Bank of Japan to lend up to 200,000,000 yen ($99,700,000) in order to restore financial institutions in Formosa which went bankrupt amid the panic...
...summer vacation. Ornithologists, recalling the starling's reputation for appropriating the nests of other birds, punned feebly on the name of the President's emissary whose problem is not to find a home but to choose among the many offered by generous donors with available premises and a yen for publicity...
Today, with thousands of Japanese dependent on the wisdom of Yone Suzuki and her advisers, she remained at Kobe last week, busy with planning how to pay her creditors 500,000,000 yen ($250,000,000) and still carry...