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Japanese occupation of Manchuria continued unchallenged by any Great Power. In Mukden, Capital of Manchuria, a puppet "Chinese Government" protected by Japan and headed by Chinese General Yuan Chin-kai last week proclaimed "severance of relations" between the three Manchurian provinces and the rest of China. Lest Japan set up the ex-Emperor of China as a puppet ruler of Manchuria, a Chinese patriot sent "Emperor" Henry Pu Yi a basket of fruit containing a bomb. Henry took the basket, thanked his Heavenly Ancestors for their protection when the bomb did not explode...
...China takes even greater pride in what Dr. Wang does with his spare time, of which Hague justices have plenty. For the past two and a half years Dr. Wang, as president of the Judicial Yuan of the Nationalist Government, has been working on an entirely new code of laws for his native land. Bit-by-bit this code, called Yueh Fa, has been enacted by the Nationalist Government. Most notable change in the laws is that affecting marriage and the family, which the Legislative Yuan passed last December. Excerpts: "The duty of a wife to obey her husband, provided...
...protests from Washington, London and Japan that its execution had to be definitely stayed (TIME, Jan. 13). Last week the great powers were tongue-lashed by the Chinese official who is a sort of Chief Justice and Attorney General rolled into one, Dr. Hu Hanmin, president of the legislative Yuan or council...
...second Yuan is that of Justice, headed by the great Chinese jurist Wang Chung-hui, onetime representative of China on the World Court. The third or Legislative Yuan is a large council of from 49 to 99 members, with parliamentary initiative. The fourth and fifth Yuans are those of Examination ("Civil Service") and Council Control (having powers of impeachment and audit...
Died. General Li Yuan-hung, last constitutional president of China, deposed in 1923; at Tientsin...