Word: super-tuchun
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...Super-Tuchun Chang of Manchuria, friend to Feng...
...Super-Tuchun Wu, opposed to Feng and Chang...
...defection of General Feng (TIME, Nov. 3) left Super-Tuchun Wu in a virtually untenable position. Harrassed from the North by the advancing troops of Super-Tuchun Chang, he conducted a retreat on Peking with the object of ridding the world of "Traitor" Feng. The odds were too heavy. Several times, military observers declared, Chang could have annihilated the Wu army, but he always left a loophole for its retreat by way of the sea. Finally, Wu requested an armistice from General Feng. The war stopped. Peace negotiations proceeded. Chang was reported retiring to Mukden, his capital, but this seemed...
...conference met; and, as a result, President Tsao Kun ordered the cessation of hostilities, dismissed Super-Tuchun Wu from his post of Commander-in-Chief of the Peking forces, ap pointed him Chief Commissioner of the Koko-nor district in Tibet. This appointment was virtually banishment. Rumors then emanated from the Capital stating that the Cabinet had been ar rested. These rumors were, however, unconfirmed...
Situation. The situation as it was reported: Super-Tuchun Chang an nounced that the war was over. Super-Tuchun Wu continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said that he had acted only to stop a fratricidal war and that Wu had been dismissed because of incompetence, gross civil and military misuse of his powers. He declared that he would continue the war against Chang if the latter did not heed the President's order to cease hostilities...