EMPEROR OF CHINA.
MOVE BY CHANG TSO-LIN. REPORTS BY JAPANESE. TOKIO, Nov.' 34. 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 best silk is obtainable. Chang will proclaim his era the " Military Mountain Era," and rename China the " Mighty Expansive Empire." Meanwhile he is highly aggravating Japan by his oppressive measures against Korean tenant farmers Jn Manchuria, who are Japanese subjects, and of whom 1.000.000 arc 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 perm'ttcd to lease agricultural land in Manchuria. Thousards of penniless evicted Koreans are crossing the* borders into their homeland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19807, 30 November 1927, Page 11
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