Word: super-tuchun
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Peking. The onetime imperial city, where Mr. MacMurray dictated his cablegram, was either in the hands of Super-Tuchun Wu Peifu's troops, which had united with the garrison of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang's troops; or the attacking Wu troops (TIME, April 5) held only part of the city, and were still being resisted by the Feng troops...
Feng and Wu. Super-Tuchun Feng, who has dominated Peking since he traitorously seized it from Wu (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924), was last week either at Urga, Mongolia, whither he had fled; or he had sneaked back over 1,000 miles to Peking and was waiting there in secret to dicker with Wu, when the latter should arrive from a place unstated...
...armies of Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu (TIME, April 5) moved upon Peking in force last week. Chang's airplanes dropped bombs near the foreign quarter. Super-Tuchun Feng's armies partly evacuated the city, milled about uncertainly in the suburbs. A Chinese bride was killed by a bomb as she rode to her wedding...
Bombardment. The mercenaries were those of Super-Tuchun Feng, who has long controlled Peking. They rolled up a few pieces of field artillery behind the old fort of Taku at the mouth of the river. Merrily they blazed away at all ships which tried to enter it-at many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...
...Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," busied himself with besieging one of Feng's armies at Hsinyanchow last week. Dr. Nils D. Nelson of St. Paul, Minn., the resident missionary Bishop, was "accidentally shot by Wu's troops...