Word: tings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should a son of German President Paul von Hindenburg cause the assassination of General Erich von Ludendorff, that would be news. In China the General Yang Yu-ting played until last spring the role of a "Ludendorff." He was the "brains" of a Chinese "Hindenburg," the late and great Marshal Chang Tso-lin, then War Lord of North China and Manchuria. When the advancing Nationalist Armies forced Old Chang to flee from Peking (TIME, June 11) the War Lord's retreat was masterfully executed by "Ludendorff" Yang. With him during the desperate days of retreat was Young Chang...
...emphasize the nobility of the War Lord's evacuation his son and heir, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, remained behind in Peking to hand the city over to the approaching Nationalist Armies. With him remained a little known but thoroughly potent Chinaman-General Yang Yu-ting, sometimes called the "Ludendorff" or "Brains" of Chang...
...League States took no action last week; and the Nationalists thereupon called to Paris requesting Dr. C. C. Wu, distinguished statesman, and son of the late Chinese Minister to the U. S., Wu Ting-fang to proceed at once to Washington and explain the Nationalist case against Japan before U. S. public opinion. At Paris last week Dr. Wu, who is on a round-the-world trip for the Nationalist...
Foreign Affairs-Dr. C. C. Wu (son of onetime [1896] Chinese Minister to Washington, Wu Ting-fang, 1896-). Finance-Dr. Ku Yin-fang (onetime associate of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic"). Chiang, his "Cabinet" set up, hurried Northward with two armies, resuming the original Nationalist object of advancing to conquer Peking...
...Ting, Mayor of Shanghai, took ship for Japan "to seek medical treatment...