CHINA: Imperial Twilight, Red Fire

Henry I. A delegation of rich mandarins and erstwhile potent nobles, their silken garments rustling, their smiles unctuous, sought audience last week with Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, co-conqueror of Peking with Super-Tuchun Chang

Tso-lin (TIME, May 3). They came in behalf of "The Son of Heaven," the abdicated Emperor Henry P'u-yi, a handsome clear-skinned boy just turned 20, who ascended the throne in his nurse's arms at the age of two, and toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment...

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