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Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash for Yun...
...through. "Let it be clearly understood," begins the Honorable Reader, chic Yuen Tsung ("Maimie") Sze, daughter of Sao-ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 3),"that this unfurnished stage represents the scene of the picturesque garden of the Prime Minister, Wang Yun." When he appears, Wang promptly makes it known that he has two sons-in-law, Wei, the Tiger General and Su, the Dragon General, and three daughters, Golden Stream, Silver Stream and the maidenly Precious Stream (Helen Chandler). The last gives him much trouble because, instead of picking out a prince...
...province of Szechwan in China lived until last week Li Ching-yun. In China where Age means something he was a great man. By his own story he was born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. He continued to gather herbs for the rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like...
...Ching-Yun Hsiao, a graduate student in the Engineering School, and William Eugene Billings '31, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have been awarded the Clemens Herschel Prize in Hydraulics...
From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...