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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the numerous atrocities of "Little Hsu" one is especially notable. Seven years ago he was the guest of General Lu Chien-chang at Tientsin. While they were walking in the garden, "Little Hsu" whipped out a revolver and shot Lu point blank through the heart. "Little Hsu's" power was at its height at the time, and no one dared to lay a finger upon him. Such was the steely eyed man whom Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui was rumored to be on the point of calling to the post of Premier last week...
Suddenly last week the tables turned with lightning celerity. One morning Kuo was reported on the point of utterly routing the forces of Chang near Hsin-min-fu. A few hours later the Kuo forces crumpled and fled before the at length fully exerted might of Chang...
General Kuo and his wife hastily disguised themselves as coolies and attempted to hide in a cellar. There they were seized by General Yang, a lieutenant of Super-Tuchun Chang. General Kuo's wife attempted to escape and was instantly and mercifully shot dead. For Kuo remained a harder fate. He watched while his dead wife's arms and head were cut off. Then his own legs were hacked from his body and as he swooned he was decapitated...
Super-Tuchun Chang completed his revenge by ordering that the remains of General Kuo and his wife should be paraded about Mukden, spitted upon sharpened poles. At length they were deposited upon the grave of one of Chang's faithful generals, who was killed by Kuo at the inception of the mutiny. Late despatches reported that General Kuo is survived by four widows, since only his fifth and favorite wife fell into the hands of Chang. Curiously enough, Super-Tuchun Chang's fifth wife gave birth to a child on the eve of the battle...
...Japanese troops recently despatched from Port Arthur to protect foreign interests in the vicinity of Mukden (TIME, Dec. 28) began to retire following the victory of the pro-Japanese Chang. Persistent rumors to the effect that Japanese soldiers disguised in Chinese uniforms had aided Chang were flatly denied at Tokyo, where everyone in official circles professed to be horrified by the barbaric conduct of victor Chang...