Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previously extraneous force entering the Chinese Civil War, last week was the advance southwestward from Shensi Province into Honan of the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang with an army which has long skulked in Mongolia (TIME, June...
Heavy Swords. For months troops of the New Nationalist Government of South China have been slowly pressing their campaign toward Shanghai, which has been defended by the potent Marshal Sun Chuan-feng. Sun knows that all this while trained spies and agitators have crept in advance of the Nationalist army into Shanghai by twos and threes. Their propaganda, mostly in English, has taken good effect. Last week all transport workers of Shanghai and the employes of several mills went on strike?prepared to revolt and join the Nationalist army when it should draw nearer...
General Michael Borodin, the Russian field adviser to the Cantonese r threatened once more to upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...
...present there are in China three main contenders for power, Chang Tsolin, in the North, Feng Yo-hsi-hsiang in the West, and Chiang Kai-shek in the South. Of these three there is only one, the southern general, Chang, who really has the true interests of his country at heant...
...General Feng, the Christian who is now allied with the Cantonese, said recently. 'I think the power of the Nationalist armies and the secret of their steadfastness in conflict with superior forces is that they are bound up with the people and are fighting for the national cause...