Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
Manchuria's Boy Dictator
t Guide Him

garden. This might safely have len
taken as an omen of the future, Tor
soon young Chang Hsueh-liang became
imbued with a desire to fly, which
eclipsed all OF his other desires. And
for four years he pleaded daily with his
parents to be allowed to test his skill
in the air. Later he learned.
1t was just after he had made his
latest purchase OF no less than Is fight
ing planes from France, bringing the
total of airworthy ships under his
command to nearly 100. that first met
young Gen Chang Hsueh-liang. But
long before / ever met him had heard
much of him from friends returning to
sports was declared to be phenomenal
AS a swimmer, skater, motorist and
gentleman jockey. he was said to be in
class by himself The fact that he
had employed Spider" Kelly, one time
lightweight champion of the United
States Marines, to teach both himself
and his battalions American boxing
strategy was worthy of more than pass
ing interest.
Within the fortnight before I met
him he had made military history in
China. Leading his own division, he
had CALAMITY taken the offensive and
had preached the Great Wall of China
for the first time in the history of the
world Every one had said it couldn't
be done. Young Chang took 1900
trench mortars-and did it. Then he
had encircled the enemy defending th'
mort city and had captured $4,000
prisoners.
His great victory was the principa
topic of conversation throughout China
~, flNat H1f,cforxr cUoy1inc IN no,
when I 1rst met the youthful Chang
Hsueh- liang.
Democratic. debonair and altogether
charming. I found this youthful scior
of the illustrious house of Chang. Oul
conversation hardly touched on the tire.
mendous military event of the fortnight
To him that has been like big cham
pionShip foot ball game. He had trained
for It, he had won it, Now that was
over, Let's so to the moviesi"
Interested i'm America.
Gen Chang Hsueh-lians's Interest
never wavered from the screen. During
the showing of the news reel he KEEP
up running fire of questions abou
American "rchitecture. traffic problems
fires, floods. everything that was flashed
in front of him. Again and again. a!
| SOIiiSlIlIlk UNUSUAL WAS SIIJWIl, liz WDutt
! eXclaim: Gee! I'd like to go to Amer.
lea
You are such gay people" he an
nounced in an interim. You always
seem to be having such a good time ever
! though you do work hard. In China
there IRE always so many mouths to b;
! filled. and so much worry and troub.t
to feed them, that life at best is {
pretty serious business
! Have you never been away from
China?" asked
/ Once. To school in Japan. for &
term. But life there is even more seri
GUS than it is in China This wal
should be ovef soon. though, and ther
maybe they'll let me travel. I want
to see every country in the world"
And then he stopped talking and sa
enthralled while the feature picture un.
| folded the story of the hardships of ar
American pioneer family on a Western
ranch. with virtue triumphant in tn;
| final closeup.
This first meeting was but the fore.
runner of many more to follow Twic,
| and three times week the young gen
eral would slip away from the officers
mess drive the kilometers over a wilt
road and dine with me upon American
! food. On more than one occasion h.
! summoned the Chinese cook from tn,
kitchen. and when that worthy an
peared in actual fear and trembling
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