Word: pei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arches were hastily erected. Scampering coolies strewed the way toward these arches and the squares at which they stood with symbolically dyed golden sand. Proudly riding to meet one another at the focus of this gold-strewn floral mise en scène came the great Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang...
...Atrocities." Meanwhile Pekingese endured stoically the victorious armies of occupation (adherent to Super-Tuchuns [War Lords] Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin); and Dr. W. W. Yen, recently set up by the Tuchuns as "Chief Executive of China" (TIME, May 10), functioned as the entire Chinese Cabinet, since he could find no Ministers willing to serve under...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
...many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...
Rage. The representatives of the Powers at Peking recalled the Boxer Protocol to the Chinese and threatened a joint naval intervention. Enraged factions staged the usual anti-foreign demonstration at Peking. The net result seemed that the mercenaries at the mouth of the Pei-ho fired a little less often...