Word: feng
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang maintains the largest private army in the world (150,000 men) on a plane of sobriety, industry (every soldier must know a trade) and Old Testament battling Christianity...
...Tchou Gao-hsing assumed the title of "Foreign Minister," announced last week to the Great Powers that the marshal will shortly call a People's Congress in Peking to elect Yen the President of all China, and that President Yen will have as his war minister famed General Feng Yu-hsiang, redoutable master of the largest private army in the world: 150,000 men (TIME, July...
...coincidence that exactly 18 months ago General Feng, far from being Yen's war minister in Peking, was actually President Chiang's war minister in Nanking...
...Model Governor" Yen Hsi-Shan, absolute ruler of Shansi Province and 70 million Chinamen, was hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...
...great Chinese War Lord Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (150,000 men), called the "Christian Marshal," partly because he has distributed thousands of bibles to his troops. He has several times visited Moscow, unquestionably receives a large subsidy (real or counterfeit) from the Soviet Government. In China there has been no outcry against Feng charging him with paying his debts in bad money...