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Vicissitudes. The events of the twelvemonth group themselves naturally about the rise and fall of the great Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu -no stranger to such vicissitudes. A year ago he was gathering strength in the Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...
...round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...
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...