Word: tso-lin
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...none the less Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek commanded at one time not less than a third of a million armed Chinamen. From the short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps of a dozen conquered War Lords, among them that of the once dread Chang Tso-lin, who for a decade held Manchuria, and who dominated all North China from his barbaric Court at Peking. Last week the son of defeated and assassinated Marshal Chang Tso-lin, young Chang Hsuch-liang, was reported to have hoisted the Nationalist flag over Manchuria and to have sworn fealty...
...capable young Chinaman called by fawning flatterers "The Perfect Soldier" admitted last week, after 17 days of prudent concealment, the death of his father, Chang Tso-lin, the great War Lord of Manchuria, who was bombed after evacuating Peking (TIME, June...
...confused with and not related to: 1) The great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, recently dictator at Peking, subsequently bombed in Mukden, Manchuria, and rumored to have died last week; or 2) Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the War Lord, and superior officer of Marshal Chang Tsung-chang...
...because of disagreement within the Nanking Nationalist Executive Council. Thus the first troops to march into Peking were 6,000 orderly soldiers of Chang's ally (nominally his subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious cup of tea. The Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point...
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...