CHINA: Foreigners, Chang & Four

Tientsin. The shattering news that Britons had hauled down their flag and virtually evacuated their concession at Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17) traversed China last week and completely altered the plans of that shrewd, semibarbarous Northern warlord, Chang Tso-lin, who dominates both Peking and Tientsin. Heretofore, Chang has stood with the foreigners against the new Chinese Nationalist Government which has swept across half China and forced the British to evacuate Hankow. Last week Chang decided that if the Nationalists could seize $60,000,000 worth of British property at Hankow, "Chicago of China," and...