Word: fu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, until recently "War lord of Central China," long a potent bulwark against Communism, found his forces crumbling and his officers deserting by dozens last week as he retreated from Hankow, his one-time stronghold on the Yangtze, to Chengchow in northern Honan Province...
...thus waiting, was playing the usual game of a Chinese Super-Tuchun when not actually at war. He was trying to decide which of two contending armies was the stronger, so as to throw his soldiers on the winning side. Hourly telegrams arrived from Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Kai-check informing Sun that each of these death-grappled war lords believed himself soon to be victorious, but would pay heavily and gladly for re-inforcements from...
Yang. One General Yang Sen, a little sloe-eyed commander, 45, nominally subordinate to Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (see above), caused the affray by seizing the British river freight boats Wan-tung and Wanhsien. General Yang alleged that the Wanliu, another British freighter owned by the same company as those seized had previously upset two sampans filled with his soldiers. Despite the protests of the local British consul General Yang placed 300 soldiers on the captured freighters who promptly locked the white officers and passengers in their cabins, fed them but sparingly...
...principal offensive in progress during the week was that of the Cantonese armies against Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu. As the Cantonese deployed for battle along the Yangtze River near Wu chang, five simultaneous despatches reported that Super-Tuchun Wu was: 1) dead; 2) wounded; 3) in retreat; 4) victorious; 5) entrenched and standing pat on the Yangtze...
...north, the Pekingese forces of Super-Tuchuns Chang Tsolin and Wu Pei-fu pushed back the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang through Nankow Pass to new and probably impregnable lines in southern Mongolia. Thus Peking was relieved temporarily of all fear of reconquest by Feng. The city, now definitely in the hands of Chang and Wu continued to suffer sporadic pillage and somewhat indiscriminate rapine from their exuberant soldiery...