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While in Peking the Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi swaggered riotously with 2,000 Mohammedan stalwarts...
...182.Prospect of further conflict loomed when fiery Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi, "The Hewer of Communist Heads," declared at Peking, last week, that the Nationalist Armies will now extend their authority over Manchuria, while their enemies "scatter like dead leaves before the rising wind...
...leave his personal army in the field, at a considerable distance from Peking, while he rushed to Nanking because of disagreement within the Nanking Nationalist Executive Council. Thus the first troops to march into Peking were 6,000 orderly soldiers of Chang's ally (nominally his subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken...
...Hsi-shan, Super Tuchun of Shansi, so-called "model province," who last week threw in his lot with the Nationalists, after months of alleged political bargaining. He has long been considered the kingpin in the Chinese situation; if he joined Chang Tso-lin, then the Nationalist cause was doomed; if he joined the Nationalists, then the fall of Peking might be considered certain and Chang driven back to Manchuria...
...Looting by individual soldiers of both factions in the Chinese city went on unchecked for 36 hours, and was carried to such extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. ¶ Comparative order was restored on the arrival of the Nationalist General Pai Tsung-hsi, Chief of Staff to the great Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kai-shek (sea below). General Pai received the British, French and Japanese consuls-the U. S. consul pointedly absenting himself. Soon the Chinese commander issued a proclamation calling upon Chinese not to molest foreigners; but in it occurred indiscreetly the term...