Word: super-tuchun
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Henry I. A delegation of rich mandarins and erstwhile potent nobles, their silken garments rustling, their smiles unctuous, sought audience last week with Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, co-conqueror of Peking with Super-Tuchun Chang...
...obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun Wu that Henry P'u-yi, who now resides quietly in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, has not even received the absolute minimum of $500,000 per annum promised him (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) when he was forced to sign his "supplemental abdication" by Super-Tuchun Feng...
...both Super-Tuchuns swore brotherly fealty, at Peking, last week and prepared to direct in concert the carrying through of their recently successful campaign against the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, April 5 et seq.), who dominated Peking until its capture by subordinate generals of Chang and Wu (TIME...
...Rises. Marshal Sun* Chuan-feng loomed from his stronghold in central China last week as a super-bandit rapidly on the make and already seriously to be reckoned with as the rival of Chang, Wu and Feng. Two years ago Sun possessed only local influence as Military Governor of Chekiang province. Recently he boldly proclaimed the five provinces now within his grasp to be an independent state. Last week it was discovered that he was plotting against the Peking forces with Super-Tuchun Wu's most trusted henchman, General Chin...
...reports was that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...