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...infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China's chaos, has retired to a mountain monastery in Tibet to polish up his calligraphy and his poetry, but he has always remained a hero to the Chinese masses...
...Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial bombing gave evidence of broken spirit. . . . Air raids at Hsi Feng Kou and again at Chi Hsien gave tragic proof of the nonsanctity of hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state...
...result was frantic scrambling in the bazaars of Peiping (once Peking) by one-time Chinese courtiers, court eunuchs and palace servants who paid fantastic prices last week for Manchu robes and bits of court regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...
While Minister Soong was away, famed "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang had been active too. Big and bluff, he is a typical North Chinese but he has the nimble brains of such Southerners as Chiang Kaishek. When last month he suddenly ended his bluff as Commander-in-Chief of a People's National Salvation Anti-Japanese Army, pocketed the People's contributions and showed a smiling face in Peiping, he announced that he was going into retirement on the Sacred Mountain of Taishan, in Shantung. Last week his smiling face emerged Cheshire Cat-like again from...
...announced War Lord Feng unblushingly soon afterward. "I should have been humiliated to meet the League Commission. ... I am one of this country which, though it boasts a population of 450,000,000 cannot safeguard its territory or protect its people, but instead begs the League for assistance. If this is not disgrace then what is disgrace in this world? . . . Also it is to be regretted that the League Commission spent so much of its time sight-seeing instead of devoting itself to its mission...