Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...Nationalist Armies concentrated in the Nanking-Shanghai area and commanded by a military council of five members (TIME, Oct. 3). Onslaught. For variously attributed reasons, the most popular being Bolshevik machinations, Yen joined forces with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking...
Meanwhile Feng, who was stated to have received $1,000,000 from the Nanking regime definitely to throw in his lot with the Nationalist cause, prepared to advance on Peking from the south-west with three primary objectives: capture of Tenchow on the Chihli-Shantung border; advance on Tsinan, capital of Shantung, by way of Tsining, to the south; capture of the Suchowfu railroad junction to the south of the Shan-tung-Kiangsu border. All these moves were designed to prevent the Shantung and Kiangsu generals from aiding their ally, Chang...
Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent...