Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Usually, the Chinese countryside has no enthusiasm for the 'cause' of any army. The provincial war-lords carry on their operations at the expense of and therefore in spite of the people, and with the notable exception of Feng's Christian Army, never with their willing support. In Canton, during my three weeks' visit, things were very different. Parades, mass-meetings, continual rounds of demonstration revealed the interest of the city population in the approaching expedition against the North. Members of the labor unions and the Hongkong strikers volunteered for service with the army. The merchants and people of Canton...
...newsorgans headlined THOMPSON NEAR DEATH, it is exceedingly probable that the Chinese dynamiters could under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central China (TIME...
...Eclipsed? Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng of Shanghai, who only last spring proclaimed the Yangtze Valley an independent state in vassalage to himself, found his subordinates deserting to Chang Kai-shek in such numbers last week that even his supremacy in Shanghai seemed threatened. The armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed...
River Tragedy. One morning last week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...
...rise and fall of the great Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu -no stranger to such vicissitudes. A year ago he was gathering strength in the Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...