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Grotesquely enough Marshal Feng himself was nowhere near Peking, last week, but was advancing upon Tientsin with another section of his enormous personal army, which probably totals 100,000 men. In Tientsin were large remnants of the armies of Chang Tso-lin which recently evacuated Peking. These troops, said to number 30,000 and excellently equipped, were commanded by the wounded War Lord's son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...
...lives on quietly in Tientsin, forgotten, until last week, when death came...
Died. General Li Yuan-hung, last constitutional president of China, deposed in 1923; at Tientsin...
...Tientsin, the port nearest to Peking, were U. S. Brigadier General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. forces of 3,950, and Allied troops bringing the total up to some 8,600, all subject in case of a general emergency to General Arai of Japan...
...Tientsin was anchored many a war boat of the Powers, and U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray appeared confident that these precautions would amply suffice to ensure the safety of U. S. citizens in Peking & Tientsin and permit their speedy evacuation if the Chinese Civil War should...