Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famed Chinaman of today is Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, called 'the Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...
According to an explicit despatch, the erstwhile "Christian Marshal" recently assembled his staff-officers at Wuyuan and impressively described to them the lifelong development and final state of his Faith...
Died. Marie Emile Fayolle, 76, Marshal of France, over-commander of U. S. troops at Chateau Thierry; in Paris; after a long illness...
...Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Dictator to Poles, announced last week that he will sail down the mighty river Danube-down and down about 570 miles-to an ancient Roman spa, The Baths of Hercules...
Soon buglers sounded the calls requested by the Archbishop; but most touching of all was the playing by Scotch bagpipers of an old lament which was the favorite of Britain's greatest War hero, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, Laird of Bemersyde (TIME, Feb. 6, 13). Softly the pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest"; and British lips repeated afterwards the motto of the House of Haig: What e're betide, What e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde...