Word: chinghai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone from the Northwest was the former Nationalist hope and Moslem warlord, Governor Ma Pufang of Chinghai (TIME, June 6). Burly, black-bearded Ma had been driven by superior Communist force from his capital Sining. A dispirited fugitive, he rested in a Hong Kong flat last week. But, unlike Fu and Tung, Ma was not ready to bow to Moscow. Last week he announced that he would shortly leave-by airplane on a long pilgrimage to Mecca...
...Chinghai province, where he has been lord and governor since 1936, he sent a column of his Moslem cavalry to Lanchow. They pitched their white tents and grazed their horses on the city's airfield, took over the guard of public buildings. Ma was making sure that Nationalist troops in Lanchow would not revolt against him. Then, unannounced, he followed in a green Buick escorted by a truckful of bodyguards...
...Pillar. Black-bearded, burly Ma Pufang, now 46, has been a pillar of anti-Communist strength in the Northwest ever since his troops hurled back the Communists of the Long March in 1934-35. A highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little...
Only a one-line announcement in Chungking newspapers revealed that Chiang and the Missimo had been in the northwest provinces (Sinkiang, Kansu, Ningsia, Shensi, Chinghai) for several weeks. Whom they talked with and where they went was a wartime secret. Only after Chiang had spoken to his top officials for a full hour did some of the things that he and Mme. Chiang learned become known...
...famed Ma clan of Moslem warriors have kept their own armies in the Northwest. ("Of ten Moslems, nine are Ma; he who is not a Ma is then surely a Ha.") Most powerful and progressive of the clan is bushy-bearded General Ma Pufang, governor of the province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another in Tibet (TIME, July 27) which may shorten the new routes for supplies...