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...justice. The last president, Tsao Kun, was locked up in Peking from December, 1924, to April, 1926, because it was said he bought his office-yet no formal charge was ever made against him and he was never brought to trial. He was released when the armies of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin entered Peking on Apr. 10, 1926. On that day the chief executive, Tuan Chi-jui, fled from the presidential mansion to the foreign legation quarter in Peking and thence to a foreign concession in Tientsin, where he now resides...
...American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
...When I left China I was reliably informed that Wu Pei-fu [since defeated and eclipsed] was collecting from the Peking-Hankow Railroad $1,000,000 per month. The total earnings of the road are $1,500,000 and the payroll $650,000 per month. It is obvious the employes cannot be paid-and they had not been for several months. Another dominant War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, is receiving the revenue of the Peking-Mukden Railroad...
...soldiers who defended themselves in Wuchang (and only incidentally defended Wuchang itself) seized the city in the first place as the hired mercenaries of War Lord Wu Pei-fu (now fled), who certainly owes them whatever "back pay" may be their...
Turncoats. Since success succeeds nowhere faster than in China, victorious Chang Kai-shek was kept busy receiving protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...