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Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully...
Charles Coburn, as the Chorus, gives a good, but by no means brilliant performance in a rather colourless part. Mrs. Coburn also does well as Chee Moo, the first wife of Wu Sin Yin the Great. But the whole business is a definitely pedestrian affair. The only really attractive character is Tso (Mary Hutchinson). As the scheming maid she is intriguing...
...Chicago, huge Primo Camera stalked warily about the ring, actually retreating from but trying to make it look as Krakow though he were ("Kingfish" advancing Levinsky), against 197-lb. Harry fish-peddler, who looked like a pigmy in the ring with his 6-ft. yin. 270-lb. opponent. In the first round, an upward right-hand sweep from Kingfish Levinsky landed on the side of the pendulous Camera jaw, caused the monstrous Camera knees to buckle. Thereafter, wary and furious by turns, using all his weight, reach and slight knowledge of tactics, Carnera managed to maul, push, lambaste Levinsky enough...
...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph Thoms called on a Chinese patient, Tom Yin, asked for a fee. Tom Yin shot him five times, poured scalding water on his head, fled. Dr. Thoms is in a hospital, Tom Yin in jail...
Five minutes passed, ten-suddenly it seemed to the befuddled generals that the room was full of soldiers, ugly grinning fellows with leveled bayonets. Tipsily "Ludendorf" Yang squinted, then whipped out his Mauser pistol-a second too late. The soldiers had already shot and bayonetted General Chang Yin-huai and before General Yang could fire he too, "The "Ludendorff" was foully murdered...