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...Tsinan and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could pretend that the "balance of power" in China had been maintained?by a deal. What next? Han, having much expanded his prestige by ousting Liu, may be expected to conspire with his honored guest in Shantung, the famed "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang. onetime master of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...
Actually the capture was made, according to friends of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, "The Christian Marshal." by troops under his control who are not Communists. Dispute rages everlastingly about whether Marshal Feng is "really Christian" or "secretly Communist." He has visited Moscow in recent years, has taken some Red money...
...Affairs famed Eugene Chen, a Cantonese leader close to Moscow, with ideas about making peace with Japan (TIME, Nov. 2). This choice, however, was not made definite last week and the new Government was strongly urged to "fight Japan" by one of China's doughtiest war lords, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang who offered to swing his private army into the fight and attempt to defend Chinchow (see below...
...Whampoa. Whampoan officers are the backbone of the Chinese Army today. President Chiang threatened fortnight ago to declare war on Japan (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week he kept quiet, despatched urgent wires to northern War Lords who might join in a fight with Japan. Two of these, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang "The Christian General" in Inner Mongolia and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan "The Model Governor" are doughty battlers whose names are Chinese household words. If they joined President Chiang, and they have joined him before (TIME, Dec. 24,1928), China could oppose Japan with perhaps 200,000 trained and equipped...