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...more than a year a most doubtful ally of the Nationalist Government has been the so-called "Christian General," Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, holder of Peiping, Lord of the Chinese central government, owner of an enormous well-equipped private army...
...fortnight ago he was advancing with 150,000 Nationalist troops against a rebel army of 100,000 strongly entrenched. In the enemy camp it was believed that President Chiang could not count on the support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China...
...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
...groveling villages, and the towns are mostly held by a Japanese expeditionary force, similar to U. S. Marines in Nicaragua. Last week, however, there were signs that Shantung's problems will soon be mightily wrestled with by China's big, pious, go-getting Christian, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
Addressing the Nationalist Cabinet in Nanking, and speaking with the great moral power of a Christian privileged to argue in both the State's interest and his own, Feng Yu-hsiang said...