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...defection of General Feng (TIME, Nov. 3) left Super-Tuchun Wu in a virtually untenable position. Harrassed from the North by the advancing troops of Super-Tuchun Chang, he conducted a retreat on Peking with the object of ridding the world of "Traitor" Feng. The odds were too heavy. Several times, military observers declared, Chang could have annihilated the Wu army, but he always left a loophole for its retreat by way of the sea. Finally, Wu requested an armistice from General Feng. The war stopped. Peace negotiations proceeded. Chang was reported retiring to Mukden, his capital, but this seemed...
Situation. The situation as it was reported: Super-Tuchun Chang an nounced that the war was over. Super-Tuchun Wu continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said that he had acted only to stop a fratricidal war and that Wu had been dismissed because of incompetence, gross civil and military misuse of his powers. He declared that he would continue the war against Chang if the latter did not heed the President's order to cease hostilities...
...unpolitic to dub as traitor those earnest men and women who are looking for a better way to settle disputes than by war. They represent constructive effort, as opposed to the destructiveness of the militarists, and they have the sympathy, if not the active support of most of the country. The power and impressiveness of the military is passing, and nothing makes this more obvious than the bombastic utterances of its proponents...
Gaston B. Means, ex-supersleuth ot the Department of Justice, testified that Secretary Mellon had had a part in an illegal scheme to withdraw liquor from bonded warehouses. Said Mr. Means: "Mellon is the arch enemy of the Government, the arch traitor. Daugherty is a much higher class man, a much finer man than Mellon. Mr. Mellon was born grabbing dollars...
...name of Joseph Caillaux, one-time Premier, brilliant financial genius, many times Minister of Finance, convicted for "endangering France's alliances," regarded by many as a traitor, was much upon the tongue of the French public...