Word: changings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Confused despatches from China last week centred about the startling report that the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang had suddenly been confronted with a most serious mutiny in his ranks, which was supposed to have reduced the forces still loyal to him from 150,000 to less than a third of that number...
...alleged that "General" Frank Sutton, "British soldier of fortune and an expert on trench mortars," has been retained for some time past as a military consultant with dictatorial powers, by Chang. And cables picture him as not only reorganizing Chang's entire military machine, but as having devised "a new and easily manufactured form of trench mortar," which the minions of Chang are supposed to be turning out in large numbers...
...past, the Tuchuns have often been thwarted in their war plans by an inability to obtain sufficient supplies of occidental arms and ammunition. Now it is asserted that "General" Sutton has "standardized the arsenals of Chang" so that "the rapid production of small arms and ammunition is becoming a reality in China...
Although a year has passed since he was reported to have "betrayed" his then ally, Wu, to Chang (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924) and seized control of Peking, with the consent of Chang, his motives even in that apparent act of bad faith are still under dispute. Some observers have actually asserted that Wu, hard pressed by Chang, asked Feng to "betray" him, in order that he might "flee without disgrace" and recoup his forces, as he has recently managed to do (TIME...
Last week, however, the War Lords were well behaved. General Feng, the Peking Dictator, bothered the Conference not at all. 'And in the interior the great Super-Tuchuns, Wu and Chang, stalked one another, out of harm's way, without any decisive or even notable results...