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...reputable Dean Wu Chung-chieh of the department of Education at Minkuo University, China, last week announced that he had found recorded in Imperial Chinese chronicles dated 1777 the fact that one Li Ching-yung had been imperially honored for being 100 years old, that 1877 annals reported the same Li Ching-yung celebrating his sooth anniversary, that the same ancient is now 252 years old and is still living in Kai-shen, Szechwan Province...
...belies its name by belonging to Soviet Russia. Seized and packed post haste from Harbin, headquarters of the C. E. R., were 174 Soviet railway officials and! employes. They scuttled north, minus their belongings, into Siberia. General Manager A. I. Emshanov who had refused the peremptory request of Lu-Yung-hwang, President of the C. E. R. directorate, to hand over the railway management, found himself suddenly being hustled with his office force through Harbin's cobbled streets and dusty squares and locked into his house preparatory to being booted from the country. Almost immediately, the Chinese assistant general manager...
Simultaneous with the seizure of the Railway, last week, the Chinese Government announced dead the treaty negotiated by Marshal Chang Tso-lin in 1924 covering its joint operation by Russia and China. President Lu Yung-huang, unmuzzled at last, explained: "Since 1924, violations of the Treaty have been numerous. . . . Soviet Communist propaganda through . , . the railway is proved by documentary evidence seized in the recent raid of the Soviet Consulate at Harbin. We are constrained to take the present drastic measures to safeguard China's interests." Distinctly a threat was his conclusion: "If Russia resorts to retaliatory measures, China is prepared...
...Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them...
...reported that Generals Ho and Lu Tung-hsiang had escaped to Japan, but confirmation was lacking. The whereabouts of Tuchun Chi was not divulged. Victorious General Chang Yung-ming set about restoring order into chaos. The Shanghai-Nanking railway, seized for military purposes at the beginning of the campaign, was restored to the civil railway authorities...