Word: pao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious cup of tea. The Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point, in the name of the Great Powers, that General Pao and his men, by preserving order through a difficult crisis, had deserved well of all concerned and must not be harmed...
...seemed well, but General Pao and men had scarcely left Peking ere they returned, driven back by the advancing army of a third Nationalist commander, famed Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the notorious professed "Christian" whose treachery is a byword, and who has several times made himself master of Peking. Last week he was of course an ally and a very nominal subordinate of the Nationalist Generalissimo...
Soon General Pao reported to the indignant but helpless Diplomatic Corps at Peking that Feng's troops had refused Pao's men passage through their lines, thus having repudiated the safe conduct of "Model Governor...
Shortly some 50,000 troops of "Christian" Feng Yu-hsiang surrounded Peking, which was still occupied by the 6,000 "model" troops, with luckless General Pao encamped outside the walls. The next presumptuous step of Feng's troops was to take General Pao into custody and disarm...
...Miss Pao Tselg, a descendant of famed Philosopher Tsing and the founder of a school for well-bred Chinese girls, observed that Confucius in all his teachings mentioned women only twice. She quoted his maxim: "It is very difficult to keep company with women or with small-minded men." And she recalled his reply to King Wu, when this worthy had mentioned the aid, which he received in ruling, from a council of 10 persons: ". . . There are only 9, for 1 is a woman...