Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north, the Pekingese forces of Super-Tuchuns Chang Tsolin and Wu Pei-fu pushed back the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang through Nankow Pass to new and probably impregnable lines in southern Mongolia. Thus Peking was relieved temporarily of all fear of reconquest by Feng. The city, now definitely in the hands of Chang and Wu continued to suffer sporadic pillage and somewhat indiscriminate rapine from their exuberant soldiery...
...under whom Sun fought as a general only last year) and Chang have momentarily the upper hand in China. But what will happen in a year, a month, a week? Can Chang and Wu resist the great encircling movement financed by Soviet Russia, the teeth of which are Feng's armies in the north and the Cantonese Bolsheviks in the south...
...were almost nil. Little or nothing has been accomplished because the Government of China has become a myth, the shadow of a name, and left no responsible authority at Peking with which the delegates could deal. They have stayed on-through cold, sand, heat-hoping that after Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang was ousted from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed...
...Super-Tuchun Wu that Henry P'u-yi, who now resides quietly in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, has not even received the absolute minimum of $500,000 per annum promised him (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) when he was forced to sign his "supplemental abdication" by Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-Hsiang, former War Lord of Peking. Would not Super-Tuchun Wu, cried the delegates, add luster to his reputation as the exponent of China's former aristocracy by restoring a clinking golden aura to "The Son of Heaven?" Super-Tuchun Wu would not. Courteous but firm, he sent...
Despatches told that Feng's armies held last week, a line stretching roughly from Nankow to Yuchow, thus fending off their mountain sheltered base at Kalgan from the expected attack of Chang and Wu originating at Peking. General Tien Wei-chun was moving from Peking last week upon Nan-kow pass (26 miles northwest) ; and Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, Wu's principal field commander, was preparing to advance upon Yuchow (100 miles west of Peking...