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...year ago he was gathering strength in the Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...
...Kuyuin Wellington Koo, famed "political handyman of China," sometime Chinese plenipotentiary to the principal Occidental powers and conferences during the last generation, was commanded by Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and Peking, to form a Cabinet...
Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War lord of Manchuria and Peking," sent re-enforcements to Wu somewhat half-heartedly last week, but concentrated upon improving the defenses of Peking. He feared...
...name, and left no responsible authority at Peking with which the delegates could deal. They have stayed on-through cold, sand, heat-hoping that after Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang was ousted from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed a motion to adjourn indefinitely, packed their traps and trinkets, departed...
...Tso-lin (TIME, May 3). They came in behalf of "The Son of Heaven," the abdicated Emperor Henry P'u-yi, a handsome clear-skinned boy just turned 20, who ascended the throne in his nurse's arms at the age of two, and toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded...