CHINA: Monster

Jack the Ripper, Rasputin and the "Marquis" de Sade ("Father of Sadism") had no worse reputation among them than rapacious, repulsive Chang Tsung-chang ("The Monster") who reduced rich Shantung Province to thoroughgoing starvation (TiME, April 8, 1929).

Chinese estimate that while Shantung was in Chang's clutches not less than 5.000,000 Shantungese who would not otherwise have left their homes fled the province. When it was bled white, when the starving peasants were eating grass and considered rats a luxury. War Lord Chang absconded with ten million silver dollars to Japan. There he...

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