Word: pei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last autumn, after the defeat of President Tsao Kun and General Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10), Chang, one of the victors, retired to Manchuria with words of peace, promising to keep his army out of politics...
With the necessary passports secured, money telegraphed ahead to post offices of the larger western cities, and with a letter to General Wu Pei Fu safely stowed in the dispatch box, the expedition left Pekin in August. It went to Cheng Chow on the Pekin-Hankow railroad, then west to the end of the railroad that will some day connect the coast with the western provinces...
Last October, Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu evicted Tuchun Lu of Chekiang (TIME, Oct. 27) ; but the victory in the North of Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin over Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10) reversed matters and Tuchun Lu, ousted from the Province of Chekiang, was given the Military Governorship of Kiangsu in place of Chi, ousted. This meant that Shanghai had fallen for the second time and was again in Lu's hands...
...Centre, General Wu Pei-fu, until recently the biggest man in China, prepared, with his cronies, for war upon the legions of the Peking warlords...
Actors. Gen. Wu Pei-fu, Tuchun-of Chihli Province. He is the ablest military mind of China. Under his control is the whole north and centre of China, except Manchuria. He is the Lord Protector of Peking, which is in his province. Although a democrat, he aims at reunifying China by the sword, which policy has brought him into conflict with the Tuchun of Manchuria and Dr. Sun Yatsen, of the South. One of the anomalies of the situation in Peking is that President Tsao-Kun was once an enemy of Gen. Wu. At the time Tsao-Kun was made...