Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
...Feng the Mighty" is still master of the world's largest private army, a largely self-supporting band of 150,000 men, each schooled in some useful trade (TIME, July 2). Just now the new Nationalist Government of China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
Addressing the Nationalist Cabinet in Nanking, and speaking with the great moral power of a Christian privileged to argue in both the State's interest and his own, Feng Yu-hsiang said...
Since the private army of Marshal Feng unquestionably contains the Nationalist Government's "best soldiers," there is no question that the War Minister means to police Shantung with his own men. Doubtless that would be well for the desperate, starving Shantungese. If they are not to perish many a hard job must be done, just such job as Feng's tough soldiers are well schooled to do-farming, road building, weaving, dike construction, and rehabilitation of areas ravaged by China's civil...
...Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...