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...more than a year a most doubtful ally of the Nationalist Government has been the so-called "Christian General," Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, holder of Peiping, Lord of the Chinese central government, owner of an enormous well-equipped private army...
...days later Marshal Feng was dismayed to learn that Canton had not been captured. President Chiang was sending two armies, each as large as the entire U. S. regular army, moving north and northwest against him. The Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) had met and expelled Marshal Feng for life...
...however, was not yet openly declared. Each side ruefully realized that they were undertaking a good deal more than they cared about. It has long been understood in Nanking that if the Nationalist Government is to survive it must sooner or later exert its authority over Marshal Feng, but they devoutly wished that the Kwangsi rebellion was over before trying to do this. Marshal Feng also realized that the Kwangsi rebellion was not occupying quite so many Nationalist troops as he had expected, that Chiang had over 250,000 troops to oppose his 150,000, that Chiang was making every...
...fortnight ago he was advancing with 150,000 Nationalist troops against a rebel army of 100,000 strongly entrenched. In the enemy camp it was believed that President Chiang could not count on the support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China...
...recent resignation of Marshal Feng from the post of Nationalist War Minister (TIME, April 8), strengthened the rebels' confidence that he would aid them against the Government; but as battle lines were drawn, last fortnight, Feng remained steadfast, and when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north...