EMPEROR OF CHINA
MOVE HY CHANG TSO-LIN REPORTS BY JAPANESE TOKIO, 24th Nov. Japanese correspondents at Pekin report that Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the Northern warlord and most powerful leader in the country, is now openly preparing to crown himself Emperor of China. The coronation robes'have "been ordered from Soochow, where the bestsilk is obtainable. Chang will proclaim his era the "Military Mountain Era,' and rename China the "Mighty Expansive Empire." ' Meanwhile he is highly aggravating Japan bv his oppressive ' measures against Korean tenant farmers in Manchuria, who are Japanese subjects, and of whom 1,000,000 are" engaged in agriculture in Eastern Manchuria. Chang's officials are confiscating Korean crops and evicting the owners on the grounds that Japanese subjects are not permitted to lease agricultural land in Manchuria. Thousands of penniless evicted Koreans are crossing the borders into their Homeland.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 5
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