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...Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
...Government started something it is not going to finish?" angrily at Nanking last week boomed massive "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang who, born a peasant and still a peasant, delights to shame more refined Chinese officials when he can. There was last week no getting around the fact that the Nanking Government had sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With...
...addicts are entitled to further delay -I urge immediate executions!" shouted Feng, banging his peasant fist. "I myself have a cousin who, after 40 years of opium smoking, cured himself of this habit at the age of 62. Others can do likewise if they are determined!" As the Generalissimo and Premier of China, Chiang Kaishek, was not answering the telephone or reading his mail or telegrams during the week, the Christian Marshal could only browbeat lesser officials and they timidly tried to appease him with just a little death. After Feng had stormed for hours, Peiping police produced a half...
...considered likely that the Young Marshal, flush with millions, will travel for a time abroad and ultimately be given another Chinese Army under the Generalissimo. Joy in China at the happy ending of the crisis reached such transports that even that uncompromising teetotaler, "The Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, announced as a matter of national moment, "I have drunk a full glass of wine, toasting the deliverance of the Generalissimo...
...case, the Young Marshal had rocked Eastern Asia by starting last week either a war between China and Japan or a much bigger civil war than has raged in China for some years. The famed "Christian Marshal," Feng Yu-hsiang, who ranks as China's most benevolent and adroit double-crosser, could hardly wait to get in on whatever was taking place at Sian. "I will fly thither at once," roared the Christian Marshal, "and offer myself as a hostage to the Young Marshal for the safety of the Generalissimo...