Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Feng, "Chinese Christian Soldier," was also widely discussed last week, in view of the widespread uncertainty as to whether he would continue in a "benevolent" attitude toward the Customs Conference. Feng, like many a western statesmen, has been alternately reviled for "treachery to his friends" and praised for "his devotion to the interests of the mass...
Last week, however, the War Lords were well behaved. General Feng, the Peking Dictator, bothered the Conference not at all. 'And in the interior the great Super-Tuchuns, Wu and Chang, stalked one another, out of harm's way, without any decisive or even notable results...
Peking (TIME, Nov. 2). The movements of the great rival War Lords, Wu and Chang, remained shrouded in obscurity in the interior; and General Feng, so called "Christian protector of Peking," was contradictorily reported to have cast in his lot with Wu and with Chang...
...Peking, General Feng Yu-hsiang became so agitated at the comeback of Super-Tuchun Wu, whom he "betrayed" last year, that he was reported upon the point of offering to unite his strength once more with Wu against Chang. This naturally makes things highly interesting for the weak Peking "Government of China," which is entertaining the Customs Conference and which is supposed to be "protected" by Feng...
...this point, Wu Pei-fu* would attack Feng from the rear in an attempt to regain the commanding position from which Feng (treacherously?) hurled him last year...