Dastard & Venerable Mother

China's No. 1 dastard, Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, who robbed & raped his way around and around famed Shantung province two years ago (TIME. April 8, 1929), emerged last week from his retirement at Beppu, Japanese hot-spring resort.

Traveling with a suite which included his Venerable Mother, three of his numerous wives, half a dozen of his staff members and his suites, Marshal Chang steamed over to Dairen. Manchuria--his usual jumping off place for a plunder-raid on China.

To meet Dastard Chang in Dairen came representatives of China's two highest-minded, purest-hearted itinerant warriors: the "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, former "Model Governor" of Shansi Province (TIME, Sept. 29).

Previously, high-minded, pure-hearted Feng & Yen have fought Chang. But last week they seemed to have something to discuss with the dastard, extorter. mass-murderer and Champion Bad Chinaman. Marshal Chang's behavior in Japan has been exemplary except for having shot, from the window of his hotel, the ex-Emperor of China's cousin, suspected of having fiddled about in the Marshal's harem.

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