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...while puzzled Chinese were trying to realize the trouble in the South, even more violent war broke out to the northward. The "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang and Northern Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping...
...Also kidnapped last October near Loshan in Honan Province was Rev. Kristofer N. Tvedt, a St. Paul Minn. Lutheran missionary, recently ransomed (TIME, April 27). He reached Hankow last week where his wife and six children have been frantic with anxiety for half a year. Broken in health, looking 20 years older and horribly dirty, Mr. Tvedt said...
...taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling of Northern forces looked like the turning point of the war, wagered that Chiang Kai-shek would control not only Shantung but also Honan province in another fortnight...
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, appeared to have captured the Honan airplane base of his enemies by a surprise onslaught of his famed "Big Sword Cavalry...