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...emphasize the nobility of the War Lord's evacuation his son and heir, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, remained behind in Peking to hand the city over to the approaching Nationalist Armies. With him remained a little known but thoroughly potent Chinaman-General Yang Yu-ting, sometimes called the "Ludendorff" or "Brains" of Chang...
Yellow Magic. To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. As his troop trains rumbled into the province of Honan, little papers by thousands were found strewn along the tracks. When Chang's soldiers read them, they discovered with terror that a mighty brotherhood of magicians, the Red Lances, had imprinted the papers with curses. "Whoso enters Honan to fight her defenders," read the curse, "shall suffer the withdrawal of the protection of his ancestors. Beware...
Before a threat so awful, despatches told, the entire army halted. Frantically young Chang Hsueh-liang telegraphed his father, Chang Tso-lin, to send still more potent magicians from Peking to break the curse. Soon, by special train, these gentry arrived. They advised that each soldier should break the curse against himself individually by tying a small "magic rag" to his rifle and wetting it with "enemy blood...
News of these troop movements of course reached China by cable, and profoundly excited the Chinese. In North Chinn, now nominally friendly to the foreigner, the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin spoke through his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, in ominous fashion...
...were exercising a ruthless censorship. The consensus of reports was that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...