Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," dictator at Peking...
Super-Tuchun Chang of Manchuria, friend to Feng...
Super-Tuchun Wu, opposed to Feng and Chang...
Situation. The situation as it was reported: Super-Tuchun Chang an nounced that the war was over. Super-Tuchun Wu continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said that he had acted only to stop a fratricidal war and that Wu had been dismissed because of incompetence, gross civil and military misuse of his powers. He declared that he would continue the war against Chang if the latter did not heed the President's order to cease hostilities...
Developments were impossible to prognosticate. Feng seemed in a shaky position; Wu's situation on the whole appeared desperate. Chang must have been the only Chinese leader who could afford to smile...