Foreign News: Slow Strangulation

Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances. . . .

Marshal Chang is the self-proclaimed defender of foreigners in China, is known to be subsidized by Great Britain and Japan. His troops are the best in China, well drilled, equipped with guns from his own arsenals. Likewise the concubines, the motor cars, the palaces of...

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