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his we'll kept. beautifully formed hands.
He makes low voiced comments to the
aide beside him, says he will take up
the game himself when he has time
and make his officers take 1t up
Between ChukAcJs those persons arc
7 esented whom the attaches c0nSioer
srfhciently important. AID he shows
white teeth and shakes hands Imply.
He is afable and il is explained that
he does not speak English, but under
stands it sufficiently well.
Such public appearances are rare.
The thirty-odd millions III Manchuria
and the million Chinese N PC.pmg who
spend so much time talking about him
these days have never seen him and
never will They know him Though
rlmorS and there is never any lack
of rumors in this romantic land. There
are no secrets. On the other hand.
there is such a welter OF informa-
ton. most of it from 'unimpeachable
sources" that the poor truth IS en-
tirelv lost
For example, The Young Marshal is
in the clutches of the opium habit
and diverts himself monstrously in
other fashions Or. on the contrary
the Young Marshal has, to the delight
OF his friends. conquered the opium
habit and his family life IS model
Of virtue and restraint.
Another example. The Young Marshal
lives II continual fear of assassination
YOU know when he was so sick last year
he was poisoned in Nanking by basket
of fruit sent as a gift from the highest
circles Not at all. the Young Marshal
had typhoid fever. There was lot OF
typhoid around. His secretary had it,
too. And so on.
When the japanese SwOoped on Man.
Churia a year ago the international ele-
mcnt entered. and the field Of rUmor
was enlarged from Chang's personal af-
fairs and party movements to the stage
of world politics. All the sporting an
giles are covered by bets in the Peiping
clubs. and one persons guess is as good
as anothers. even an old China hands.
There are few demOnstrable facts.
Some years agO-a correspondent and
an attaChe yesterday, i'll the Office OF
the adiutant of the American guard,
made a bet whether it was in 1927 OF
in 1928 and they are now searching the
recorCs-the old marshal Chang TSo-
lin. died There was a bomb involved
in the matter
His son, the Young Marshal. Chang
Hseuh-Liang. succeeded to the command
OF his army and to the rule of the -Four
Eastern Provinces, which is to say Man
churia.
A wear or so later the Manchurians
had small boundary dispute with the
Soviets. and were assured the support
of the Nationalist government at Nam
king. upon which some territorial divi-
sions of the Young MarShals were
moved up to the disputed frontier.
At once a small but highly competent
Soviet force materialized and tore those
divisions to pieces. and the war was
over with such stunning sWiftness that
the correspondents and observers. who
hastened to the scene. found nothing to
observe at all. There came no help OF
anv kind from Marking, and Chang
composed his differences with the
Soviets on his own as we'll as he could,
When in 1881 the japanese flung
Changs army out of Manchurla. Nan
king again confined its support to shrlll
verbal eXhortations. There are said 10
be 100000 men under arms in emma
proper, but none of them came north
against the Japanese.
Now the japanese are thrusting from
Manchuria into Jehol. the next prov
ince to the west. And the rest of China
F Is dSSdlLulS tIIC pNitiE ANit'iHAAt'4 '-N--
many words because he doesn't fight,
At the same time the japanese, by
foreign and domestic propaganda OF
great force and volume. are asserting
that the Young Marshal is responsible
for the resistance they are meeting in
Jeho. in the new state they call Man
chukuo. and within the walled city
of Mukden itself. and that his wsr-like
activities are the only obstacles to
peaceful relations between Japan ana
China.
Young Marshal Must Co
But Still Chang Stays On.
/ So far the themes are different, but
in the chorus they unite: The Young
Marshal must go.
He has not appeared deaf to this
olamor In 1881. when the student riots
forced Chang Kai-shek to lay down the
baton of generalissimo. it was further
! announced that the Young Marshal
was nc longer vice commander of the
forces. He continued, however, to live
IN Peiping. with no apparent difference
IN his way of living.
At the end of last August he an
nounced his resignation from all MS
appointments. saying he would retire
/ to rest in the Summer palace or some
| such place There followed high ex-
element in all circles, aEd Nankine