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...seemed well, but General Pao and men had scarcely left Peking ere they returned, driven back by the advancing army of a third Nationalist commander, famed Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the notorious professed "Christian" whose treachery is a byword, and who has several times made himself master of Peking. Last week he was of course an ally and a very nominal subordinate of the Nationalist Generalissimo...
Soon General Pao reported to the indignant but helpless Diplomatic Corps at Peking that Feng's troops had refused Pao's men passage through their lines, thus having repudiated the safe conduct of "Model Governor...
Shortly some 50,000 troops of "Christian" Feng Yu-hsiang surrounded Peking, which was still occupied by the 6,000 "model" troops, with luckless General Pao encamped outside the walls. The next presumptuous step of Feng's troops was to take General Pao into custody and disarm...
...South China Nanking Government sent its main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...
...troops will fight, of course, in the usual spring civil war which flames up each year between North and South China. At present Feng Yu-hsiang is fighting on the side of the Southern Nanking Nationalist Government and against the Northern armies of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, famed semi-imperial Dictator. Thus it will be under the banner of Dictator Chang Tso-lin that the vengeance brigades of Yuan Shih-kai's relatives will fight...