1937-08-17 — Page 8

POSTSCRIPT TO A CHINESE DRAMA

The situation, one may

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By H BO-B. Elliston

der the Government

the Generalissimo re-

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UNDER surveillance in a faraway been taking a leading part in the "Young Marshal told them that he The fat would then have been în not killed as the result of the bom- village in the Chinese pro- Chinese Government's military would go to Nasking with the Gen the fire. If the "Gissimo" were vince of Chekiang there resides a operations against the so-called Chin- eralissimo when they arrived at a

in

decision as to the policy and would bardment, he would have been killed man who qualifies as the world's ese Reds.

In time, this Red-chasing came to stand trial and take whatever by the infuriated "rebels," or the Shensi and Chang's troops combined. most misunderstood person. His

Madame Chiang prevented the bom name is Chang Hsueh-liang He is appear meaningless to Chang. It pamishment might

bardment, and at Sian arranged for a marshal of China, often called was fratricidal. It seemed to him hìm.

her husband's release. the "Young Marshal the reason that, with Japan mbling away at being that he was given this high the Chinese domain in North China

gather, office when he was in his twenties. to add to Japanized Manchuria, China

The Young Being still this side of 35, he re- should close her ranks, including was, very

He tried Marshal lived in dread lest the

Soon mains the "Young Marshal The Reds and everybody else. He to world now associates his name with to obtain a hearing when he re- Shensi troops might insist that they turned to Nanking the "Young an act of high treachery. For it turned to Nanking from one of his should be the Generalissimo's hosts. Marshal," on his own volition, came to redeem his promise to stand trial was the "Young Marshal" who, on Redhunting campaigns in the North- But the strangest thing about the

for his dereliction. At the court. December, 12, was responsible for west. But he could not obtain any entire episode is that the Generalis the coup de theatre at Sianfu-the satisfaction. So he decided to make simo was in far more danger from there was a dramatic scene. coup which made a prisoner of the a last effort to persuade the Gen- a certain anti-Chiang Nanking go stead of being contrite, the "Young

captors!

Marshal" defied the entire tribunal, man who runs China. Generalissima eralissimo during one of the lat- ernment than from

between the

saying that the only man he re- revealed Chiang Kai-shek.

ter's visits to Chang's headquarters: This is now

spected in t Government was the The Young Marshal merely want- lines of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's

kidnapped The re- ed a change of policy. He did not, story of the coup. She mentions the as alleged at the time of the Sianfu "unhealthy obsession of leading gard seems to be mutual. For it was the captive who arranged for Before his Sianfu exploit, Chang coup, want money, or the deposition military officers in Nanking to at

a commutation of Chang's 10-year Hsueh-Hang was best remembered as of the Generalissimo, or injury to tack. Sian under cover of a desire

term making it possible for the the overlord of Manchuria Prior him; nor was he either a Soviet or to "rescue" the Generalissimo, to the Japanese conquest in 1931, a Japanese tool. On the first day clique in the Government, anxious "Young Marshal to be retired to Manchuria belonged to China. But that friends of the captured Gen- to take over the reins of govern the Chekiang village of Chikow, arrived in Sian the ment, wished to bombard and seemed there to be kept under surveillance. it was Chang's own satrapy, an area bigger than France and Germany combined. Of all China's warlords, young Chang was the only one to inherit his bailiwick. Yet how dif- ferent he was from his "father! Chang the Elder grew up a bandit in the wilds of Manchuria, medieval in his ideas of government, rough and uncultured. His son. went to a YMCA. school Agreeable, Eng-

HAT China has produced a Wal, whether she is or lish-speaking, never happier than

ter Winchell of no small abil-Recorder. when playing poker or golf with foreign friends this was Chang ity is shown in The Chinese Digest, fils. His father's associates could magazine published in San Francis-

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eralissimo

THE

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not reconcile themselves to such a co.

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When some men discharge obligation you can hear the report for miles around Mark Twain.

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Epitaph: He walked on

undermine the new occupant of the tractions is a racy social column credit to the found which would do Manchurian "throne." they that the chip of the old block had "Broadway Mouthpiece" himself. not been softened either by educa-East and West meet in the style of tion or his foreign associations.the anonymous Chinese columnist, suicide of the road. Within a few months he had two who opens gossip thusly: "Greet- of the more ambitious lesser chief- Hings! I bring thee May flowers. O tains executed in his own palace! sons and daughters of Tang, and

The "Young Marshal," however, also much tea-table talk that has claims he's serving his third

generation-Boston Transcript. was modern, as his father was come to my attentive ears feudal. That means in China that this humble person a cup of cooling he had a patriotic feeling for China while I tell

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It was while he was at Chikow that the Nanking Government wound up its years-old operations against the Chinese Reds! In other words, the Young Marshal's ruse had been successful. China now has a united front-it has gained a unity such as it has never had before in the generation-long history of the Republic

dist None knew better than the "Young Marshal the waste in na- tural resources of national spirit in- volved in Red-chasing while the Japanese were purloining China. Over $300,000,000 had been spent, to say nothing of the loss of life and property, in trying to suppress the Red leaders, and without success. the To his prosecutors: Chang declared that, since Moscow had long ago changed its policy, and had ceased to support the Reds in China, since the Red leaders had themselves got tired of fighting Chinese, and since Japan had so far occupied about one sixth of China, the time had come when the Central Government furnishes People who have half an hour to should revise its policy, explore the He bowed, for instance, to Nanking's Romance of course sovereignty over Manchuria. He the main fare for the readers: spare usually spend it with some Red leaders' attitude of mind, and Indianapolis do its best to stop the fighting and went out of his way to join the "David Wong of Sacto who used body who hasn't.

concentrate a united defence against Nationalist party, the party of to work for many movie stars in News.

Japanese aggression. those who wanted to modernize Hollywood, is now escorting a cute their country, the party which now little damsel about town Her runs the Nanking government. The favourite colour is red..

pour

An elderly Beacon Street butler de

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Dignity one thing that can't And be preserved in alcohol.

Japanese were never so angry as who was that girl seen riding with and Sarah Lorimer.

when they saw the Nationalist flag Jimmie Loo on J street in Sac'to?" fly over Chang Hsueh-liang's palace The cafes of San Francisco's at Mukden, Japan preferred to see "Chinatown" are evidently the hap the "Young Marshal" remain in- py hunting ground of the gossip dependent of the Nationalists, as his sleuth. He chronicles the opening father had been; it was easier to of a new one as follows: "Chickie deal with Manchuria as an inde-Chin's Shanghai cafe is unique in pendency. So the Japanese officials a Chinatown where the best cooks in Mukden tried to make Chang are men. He has a girl, Lily Leong, Hsueh-liang see, the error of his as chef, assisted by Ruby Fong. So ways. But the youthful satrap, that's reason for the big rush at with a patriotism that would have noon! : bewildered his father, refused.

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And the ending of the month's, tidbits falls on a poetic note: "Cheerio, brethren of the tea-table, until the roses of June ring their For his fealty to the Nationalist fragrance, and the early summer party, therefore, Chang Hsuch hang breezes whisper more tidings to my lost an empire. Since then he has unweary ears, co-operated wholeheartedly with Chiang Kai-shek He gave an ex- ample of his

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There could be no refitation of the "Young Marshal's arguments. The united, front was inevitable. That it has developed as the result of his ruse has made the “Young Marshal" very happy. Still he re-

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