Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political Situation. The consensus of meagre despatches was that the soldiers of Super-Tuchun Feng, who have dominated Peking for 18 months (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924, et. seq.), found themselves quite outmaneuvered, early in the week, by the besieging troops of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang, and those of the Central Chinese Super-Tuchun Wu (TIME, April...
General Lu Chunglin, commander of the Feng troops, thereupon tried the old trick of offering to share Peking with Wu, if the latter would abandon Chang. The week passed while these ticklish negotiations were in progress. Late despatches reported that Wu had refused to listen to Lu; and that the latter, having given up hope of holding Peking, was rapidly withdrawing all the Feng armies to their great northern base, Kalgan...
...Nose. The week's current sensationalism was a report that the Feng troops had captured a band of itinerant Cossacks, had pierced the nose of each, had run a pliant wire through the holes, were leading their prisoners by the nose to Kalgan...
Peking. The onetime imperial city, where Mr. MacMurray dictated his cablegram, was either in the hands of Super-Tuchun Wu Peifu's troops, which had united with the garrison of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang's troops; or the attacking Wu troops (TIME, April 5) held only part of the city, and were still being resisted by the Feng troops...
...Feng and Wu. Super-Tuchun Feng, who has dominated Peking since he traitorously seized it from Wu (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924), was last week either at Urga, Mongolia, whither he had fled; or he had sneaked back over 1,000 miles to Peking and was waiting there in secret to dicker with Wu, when the latter should arrive from a place unstated...