Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full six feet tall. No brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...
...Statesmen thought that the Nationalist Declaration will lead to negotiations of the very largest world import, IF, and only if the vast and various armies and "Nationalists" populations are now able to calling achieve a work themselves ing solidarity. Such professed National ists as Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who has a personal army of 195,000 men, are capable of resuming the status of regional dictators they have held in the past...
...North China Daily Mail said significantly last week: "Whether he uses his strength for good or evil, Feng Yu-hsiang is the strongest man in China today...
Grotesquely enough Marshal Feng himself was nowhere near Peking, last week, but was advancing upon Tientsin with another section of his enormous personal army, which probably totals 100,000 men. In Tientsin were large remnants of the armies of Chang Tso-lin which recently evacuated Peking. These troops, said to number 30,000 and excellently equipped, were commanded by the wounded War Lord's son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...
Since to declare the "military phase" completed last week, seemed incredibly premature, observers sought some other reason for Chiang's resignation. They noted that it was followed immediately by the appointment of Nationalist Foreign Minister of Dr. C. J. Wang-a henchman of Feng Yu-hsiang. They deemed the notorious "Christian" dangerously in the ascendant, both at Nanking and in the Peking-Tientsin area...