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...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...
...Feng Yu-hsiang, onetime "Chinese Christian Soldier," whose military affiliations, as always, are uncertain, but who has two armies, one to the north-west and one to the south-west of Peking, and for the nonce is backing the Nationalist or Southern cause...
These defeats became virtually a rout last week and at the psychological moment General Chiang's nominal ally, the eccentric "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang suddenly ordered him by telegraph to resign...
Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...