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Trebitsch Lincoln drifted eastward, intriguing with French and Czech agents on the way, turned up in China, where for a time he seemed to be close to the late Warlord Wu Pei-fu. About the time his son was executed in England for murdering a brewer's assistant, Trebitsch Lincoln became a Buddhist. He had his bullet pate shaved and branded with the twelve circular symbols of the Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept...
...most Chinese, the oral cavity of the late Marshal Wu Pei-fu, poet, puppet-reject, warlord extraordinary, was a wonder. It contained the tongue of a fox, and many teeth of gold. When he died last week, the cause was announced by the Japanese as a bad dental abscess; but two days later Peking heard a story which made it sound more like bad judgment...
...studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
General Kawamoto went to Shanghai for consultations, returned, begged the Marshal importunately. Firm as the Great Wall, Wu Pei-fu again refused...
...North China death came to the old fox who was for many months Japan's greatest hope as a potential puppet-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, jovial poet, patriot, warlord. The Marshal died after an operation for an infected tooth. For a long time he led the Japanese to believe he would take the job they offered, but when the time came for his formal acceptance (at a party to which foreign correspondents were invited), he said to the Japanese, in effect: I shall become a puppet on the day when you little men go back to your little islands...