Word: feng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the week President Chiang Kai-shek left Honan where he had been directing operations against the People's Army (northern rebels, supposedly under the direction of Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan) for Nanking. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria came a second report: military leaders of all Chinese factions had ceased fighting, concluded a speedy truce to present a united front against the Russians...
...same time, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Government Department will deliver a course of six lectures on the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Sun-Yat-Sen and the spirit of democracy, Borodin and Bolshevism, Chiang Kai-sek and militarism, Feng Yu-hsiang and religion, T. V. Soong and capitalism, and C. T. Wang and modern science will be among the characters discussed...
...month ago, Marshal Feng, war lord of Peiping (Peking) and the Northwestern Provinces, was on the verge of war with the Nationalist Government. Four hundred thousand troops were mobilized on either side. Haughty Marshal Feng sent scurrilous letters to President Chiang, and rallied his allies (TIME, June 3). Last week, before actual hostilities commenced, the "Christian General" suddenly capitulated, agreed to leave China...
...complete surrender. For calling off the war, Marshal Feng was to receive $3,200,000 from the Nanking government; three millions to pay off his private army, $200,000 for personal traveling expenses. Further, Marshal Feng was not going abroad, ignominiously, "for his health," as has many another discredited Chinese leader. On his travels Marshal Feng will soothe his wounded dignity with the comforting title of "Special Investigation Commissioner of Foreign Economic Affairs for the Nanking Government." Lastly President Chiang was forced publicly to cancel the order for the capture and punishment of Marshal Feng, before he would consent...
Whatever the cost, it was worth it to get rid of turbulent Feng. Last week a stable China united under one government seemed nearer fulfillment than at any time in the past 18 years. Feng's armies and dominions, it was announced, were to be turned over to Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, strong ally of the Nationalists, "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...