China's biggest, thorniest problems lie in the famed Eastern province of Shantung. Famine stalks through groveling villages, and the towns are mostly held by a Japanese expeditionary force, similar to U. S. Marines in Nicaragua. Last week, however, there were signs that Shantung's problems will soon be mightily wrestled with by China's big, pious, go-getting Christian, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.
"Feng the Mighty" is still master of the world's largest private army, a largely self-supporting band of 150,000 men, each schooled in some useful trade (TIME, July 2). Just now the new Nationalist Government...
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