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...week at Tientsin, by enraged surviving relatives of great Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916). He was the last of the Manchu Viceroys, and became in 1912 the second President of the Chinese Republic. Last week his sons were made irate by reports that Yuan's mighty tomb in Honan, his native province, has recently been looted and denied by the itinerant so-called Christian War Lord, Feng Yu-hsiang, who has now made Honan his base (TIME...
Unfortunately, Imperial Heaven not seldom seems to reply to Chinese prayers by sending a wet dragon after a dry. Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
Feng Yu-hsiang, the "War Lord" who possesses a huge mobile army and is now skulking in Honan province was reported "tirelessly engaged," last week, in preparing for his long heralded Spring onslaught upon Peking, a capital which he has several times captured. On the last oc- casion he was, of course, finally driven from Peking by Chang Tso-lin (TIME...
...potent, perambulating Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who moves constantly about China with a mobile haste, assembled his generals in Chenchow, Honan Province, last week. To them he read a riot act which amounted to the warning that he will positively capture Peking, next spring, and that thereafter "China will not stand further unfair treatment from other countries...
...Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin (see RUSSIA) was again prominent after a period of eclipse. 2)The "Conservative Nationalists" of Nanking who were rapidly pushing toward Peking last week, led by their generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 3) The "Independent Nationalist" army of General Feng Yusiang, likewise advancing on Peking from Honan Province