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...Standing for no nonsense. War Lord Han took the field last week with 40,000 picked soldiers to collect the arrears of revenue from Chefoo's Liu who mustered perhaps 30,000 troops, by no means picked...
...June 1929, 15 months before Han became Governor of Shantung. Chefoo was taken by War Lord Liu Chen-nien, who should later have considered himself subordinate to Governor Han of Shantung, Chefoo being merely a Shantung port...
...superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during the summer. He did withhold (steal) all of Chefoo's local revenues from Governor Han of Shantung...
First by train and next by forced marches up Shantung's best motor road, War Lord Han rushed Chefooward, then spread out his forces in an 80-mi. offensive front, aiming to envelop and crush Liu's troops among the mountains of Chefoo...
There being no reporters anywhere near Shantung's suddenly created No Man's Land, correspondents hundreds of miles away in Peiping and Shanghai began a guessing game, guessed unanimously that Han would worst Liu. While the battle raged what was the attitude of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek? Did he back up Governor Han and order Subordinate Liu to submit? By no means...