Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Feng Yu-hsiang, Chinese Christian soldier, now in control of the territory around Peking and of several provinces just north of the Yangtze River, would start a war by invading Shansi Province. His motives would be: 1) to embarrass the existing official government at the time of the Customs Conference; 2) to capture Shansi, a rich province which has never been completely controlled by any of the leading rival warlords...
...other end of the war would at once be undertaken by Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian dynast, who could not afford to let Shansi fall into Feng's clutch...
...Harvey J. Howard, American kidnapped by bandits in Manchuria (TIME, July 27) was located in a bandit camp. An emissary of General Feng, Chinese Christion soldier, went forth to negotiate for his release-saying it might take a month...
Writing to The New York World, General Feng-Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," said: "We Chinese have been butchered ruthlessly by the British," who "have treated the Chinese people as though the latter were lower than hens and dogs...
Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), was marching upon the Capital. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," discovering that many of his generals were "neutral," decided that he would not fight Chang...