Word: super-tuchun
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...hundred thousand Chinese drew taut their belts last week, faced starvation with what fortitude they might. For three weeks they had been besieged in the walled city of Wuchang. Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the Cantonese Communist War Lord had ringed them round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...
...That the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang, formerly "War lord of Peking," might swarm down again upon that city from Mongolia, whither they were driven during the summer by "Chang and Wu (TIME, June...
...Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War lord of Manchuria and Peking," sent re-enforcements to Wu somewhat half-heartedly last week, but concentrated upon improving the defenses of Peking. He feared...
...Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the victorious Cantonese war lord, spent the week in directing successful campaigns against Wu and Sun and in strengthening his position at Hankow...
...Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray, set out for Shanghai and there visited Super-Tuchun Sun. Embarking at Shanghai for Manila last week, Mr. MacMurray announced his intention of taking council with Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines as to the future Oriental policy...