Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1926 — Page 24

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AMERICAN CLOSE TO CHINESE WAR LORD Graduate of University of California Serves Marshal Chang, ‘Mussolini of Far East/ as Adviser.

Ru Times Sncelal NEW YORK, Dec. B.—Bombs, civil wars and the intrigues of Chinese war lords have been in the path of E. Carlton Baker, personal adviser of Marshal Chang Tso Lin of Mukden, Manchuria, since he left the University of California campus in 1906 to become an American consular official in the Far East. The easy consular life as painted by American short story writers has not materialized for him. He has had a life of adventure in many pacts of the Orient and has just returned to Kew Gardens, outside New York City, for a look at the United States before continuing his work in Manchuria. In an intferview, he explained his liking for his adopted nation through the means of Chinese proverbs, thereby following the example not only of Chinese but Japanese Statesmen. Keenly Interested In the Far East and in business conditions throughout the world —he is president of a gold mining company in Harbin, Manchuria this world traveler likes to recall the things that Far East knew years before the civilized world ‘‘discovered” them. Maps, books, a pile of old Chinese prints are all about him at the room in his fraternity club close by the New York theatrical district. A cosmopolitan American, he will go with you in conversation quickly from Blagovestchensk, Siberia, to Rome, the home of the world’s greatest dictator. Sees Slow Development For this personal representative of the “strong man of China” frank-

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ly admits that Chang, his chief, sees in strength, and in formation of popular government in China only through slow stages of development, the hope of a truly national country. He is proud of the accomplishments of Manchuria, which has been recognized under Marshal Chang’s rule as the best managed district in all China. And he sees in Marshal Chang an expression of the humanness' which is very much a part of the Chinese people today. "Feelin’s is feelin’s no matter what the nation,” Baker quoted when questioned as to his fondness for the Chinese whom he considers very humane. “I had been an Instructor in economics after my graduation from Berkeley in 1905. And when the Secretary of State asked California’s president to recommand a man for Far Eastern service I knew the language and received the appointment.” Battle at Every Stop The disappearance of the Manchu power in China came about when Mr. and Mrs. Baker were traveling up the Yangtze river to Chungking in 1911. It was a battle at’ every stop made by their boat, and thus his Introduction to the seldom silenced guns of China came about. “One town after another fell to the opposing forces on that trip,” said Baker, “and by the time we had settled down in Chungking we were ready to take civil warfare as part of our daily diet, if necessary.” His connection with Marshal Chang came in 1919 when that determined war lord, then developing Into the power that he is today, re-

fused to let the United States State Department send its consul at Mukden into the American service at Bombay, India. "If you can’t stay in Manchuria with the United States, then you’ll have to stay with me,” said the war lord. The resigning consular official stayed with Chang and with all liberal minded foreigners who later have visited that section of the Far East. The Chinese people, famed for their quick wits, live a pleasant, busy life in Manchuria. There is the Mukden Club, where young Chinese, led by Gen. Chang Hsueh Liang, son of the Mukden war lord, dance and play bridge and take the dollars of many a foreigner in the American game of poker. But for Marshal Chang himself there is the business of warfare, visits to his men in the lines, the necessity for dodging bombers and other would-be assassins. “He, like Mussolini, believes he is

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a man of destiny, and he is entirely fearless,” said Chang’s representative. “I have been with him to the trenches, have seen him go through the recent tights to maintain the value of Mukden currency and he ia a drastic, determined ruler with a minimum interest in personal gain.” When an American firm sold Marshal Chang an armored motor car, costing $25,000, several years ago, Mr. Baker was with the war lord on his inspection trip. The operation of the car he left to a chauffeur, but the armor and the guns claimed his immediate Interest. "The mounted machine gun was tried Immediately by Marshal Chang,” said Mr. Baker. “He is a crack shot with a pistol, and most any other weapon, and he had to know that the machine gun was effective before he accepted the car.” Marshal Chang is a thin, blackmoustached Chinese less than five feet six inches tall. His interests are first his army, second his court at

Mukden, and third his son, who has met with great success recently in his military activities north of Pekin. Invented Puffed Rice “They used bamboo trees jufct as we use birch trees for the growing of oysters,” he said, adding that puffed rice could hardly be claimed as distinctly American when it originated in China years before the factories of the United States starred serving It out to the cash and carries.” Baker’s immediate interest is his gold mine, an international project which he serves as president, along with Austrians, Chinese, Russians and British. “The Russian Soviet government is attempting, by its reasonable attitude toward our concession, to prove to the world its ability to deal successfully with foreign firms,” he said. But as to the tangled state of internal China and Marshal Chang'.

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