Notes

P: Peiping, once Peking, reported last week that its population is "now larger than ever before" (1,530,890) "due to the influx of refugees from Manchuria."

P: China's famed 19th Route Army, gallant defenders of Shanghai against the Japanese attack (TIME, Feb. 1, et seq.), was joined in Fukien (South China) last week by 100 aviators from the Separatist Canton Government, thus lending verisimilitude to rumors that the 19th Route Army is "through" with the Government of China proper at Nanking.

P: When Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flung his entire 51st Division against Communist bandit armies in Hupeh recently, the 51st Division surrendered with alacrity, joined the bandits. When and if General Fan Shi-shen, commander of the 51st, is captured, he will be "shot to death for neglect of duty" by order of the outraged generalissimo.

P: Despite chaotic civil wars and the catastrophic fall of China's silver currency, Chinese customs officials announced last week that Chinese imports for 1931 were 9.4% greater than in 1929.

P: Terrified citizens of Southern Chekiang begged the Nationalist Government to desist from its purpose of sending into their province the private army of General Liu Chen-nien, recently defeated in Shantung Province by its redoubtable Governor Han Fu-chu (TIME, Oct. 3.)

Since part of Liu's army was already en route by sea last week, the Nationalist Government replied to terrified Southern Chekiang that its citizens will simply have to make the best of General Liu. In advance of his arrival the doughty General wired: I demand for my army $100,000 also 25,000 sacks of flour other provisions and fodder in proportion and 800 tons of coal.

P: At Geneva urbane Chinese Delegate Dr. Wellington Koo, onetime undergraduate editor of the Columbia Spectator in Manhattan, continued his able tilting with the Japanese Delegation over the Lytton Report. Powerless to decide between China & Japan the feeble League Council referred the Manchurian Question last week to the League Assembly, expected to meet Dec. 6.

P: In Shanghai the Chinese Anti-Civil War League proposed "to erect all over China iron statues hideously caricaturing Generals who start civil wars."

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