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...Atrocities." Meanwhile Pekingese endured stoically the victorious armies of occupation (adherent to Super-Tuchuns [War Lords] Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin); and Dr. W. W. Yen, recently set up by the Tuchuns as "Chief Executive of China" (TIME, May 10), functioned as the entire Chinese Cabinet, since he could find no Ministers willing to serve under...
Despatches from Peking were so meagre last week as to suggest that the armed forces now occupying that city (TIME, May 3) were exercising a ruthless censorship. The consensus of reports was that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...
...Yen. Dr. Yen is remembered as "the first Christian Premier of China" (1922). At the outbreak of the War he was Chinese Minister to both Germany and Denmark, withdrawing definitely to Copenhagen when China entered...
Throughout Japan the local police vainly attempted to suppress "loud-wailing parties" (Aigo) indulged in by friends of the late (TIME, April 19, MILESTONES) Emperor Yi of Korea (deposed 1910). The Japanese Cabinet voted to expend 100,000 yen ($47,000) upon a stupendous funeral, to be held over his remains...
...Japanese yen continued last week its recent upward movement (TIME, March 1). As Chinese merchants invested heavily in yen at Shanghai and Hongkong, Japanese bankers watched the quotations creep up and up at Tokyo. Before the week closed, parch-ment-skinned board-boys 'chalked up a weird symbol meaning "One yen equals 47.312c today"-the nearest approach to parity (49.85c) since...