Word: feng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that one of the many Ma family warlords sent word through the hills and in three weeks raised a fanatical army of 60,000 Chinese Moslems. Looting and terrorizing, the rebels nearly conquered a northwest China empire half as big as Europe before being defeated by the "Christian General," Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week another of the Ma clan, once-rambunctious General Ma Puching, peacefully accepted appointment as Commissioner of Reclamation in the dreary swamplands of Chinghai Province near Tibet...
...Japanese had tried to make sure that hard-eyed General Pai Feng-hsiang and his army of 18,000 hard-riding cavalrymen would play no tricks. So the Japanese arranged a feast and invited the surly general. When the general died the same night, the Japanese said: "So sorry." Then they looked around for a friendlier leader...
Leland D. Burlingame, of Lebanon, N. H. S.B. U. of N. H.; Pao-tung Ching, of Shanghai, China, S.M. Purdue '40; George A. Clemow, of Billings, Mont., S.B. Montana State '40; Ping Chuan Feng, of Peiping, China, S.M. Yenching '34; Ewan W. Fletcher, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert E. Geauque, of St. Louis., S.M. Missouri '40; Vernon B. Hammer, of Portland, Ore., S.B. Washington '40; William Franklin, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn...