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...armies of Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu (TIME, April 5) moved upon Peking in force last week. Chang's airplanes dropped bombs near the foreign quarter. Super-Tuchun Feng's armies partly evacuated the city, milled about uncertainly in the suburbs. A Chinese bride was killed by a bomb as she rode to her wedding...
Bombardment. The mercenaries were those of Super-Tuchun Feng, who has long controlled Peking. They rolled up a few pieces of field artillery behind the old fort of Taku at the mouth of the river. Merrily they blazed away at all ships which tried to enter it-at many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...
...Morley ventured into the caboose and had his first-class ticket punched by "a scared-looking little conductor, whose costume started off well with a braided cap and ended rather pitifully in shabby carpet slippers." He then glimpsed "an efficient, snappy-looking officer" of Marshal Feng's army seated on a bench in a special compartment, and was called in when the officer needed a corkscrew. Thereafter they sat toping and smoking for some time, although "of course [Mr. Morley was] not unfamiliar with the tradition that the soldiers of the 'Christian General' neither smoke nor drink...
Later Correspondent Morley saw the same caboose, with Feng himself inside, "going through to Peking at the top speed possible nowadays on a Chinese railroad . . . about 17 miles an hour...
...Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," busied himself with besieging one of Feng's armies at Hsinyanchow last week. Dr. Nils D. Nelson of St. Paul, Minn., the resident missionary Bishop, was "accidentally shot by Wu's troops...