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...head the fast-growing Japanese-dominated "Autonomous Government" in North China headed by twerpish-looking Mr. Yin Ju-keng. who deceives nobody by styling himself "General,", a thumping Chinese Big Name was badly needed last week by Japan...
...grim joke to Chinese when Mr. Yin's hired Chinese mercenaries, escorted by Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
Stove-Gas. In North China the pretext of a "spontaneous Chinese movement for autonomy" was set up fortnight ago when 25 counties were proclaimed an Autonomous Government by one Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese with a prominent Japanese brother-in-law. Orders to arrest Mr. Yin were telegraphed by Generalissimo Chiang last week to General Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei Province. Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove...
...Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese creature of General Doihara, closed the week's Oriental frolic on dangerous ground by proclaiming "autonomous" not the five enormous North China provinces but 25 medium-sized North China districts with a combined population of 5,000,000. He called his new "Government" the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism...
...this development Japanese Army leaders said their troops would cross the Great Wall at "the first sign of disorder." Simultaneously Yin announced as the capital of his regime Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China...