Word: tuan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said he bought his office-yet no formal charge was ever made against him and he was never brought to trial. He was released when the armies of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin entered Peking on Apr. 10, 1926. On that day the chief executive, Tuan Chi-jui, fled from the presidential mansion to the foreign legation quarter in Peking and thence to a foreign concession in Tientsin, where he now resides...
...This somewhat nebulous office was held by Tuan Chi-jui from November, 1924, until his flight from Peking a fortnight...
...long-suffering "Chief Executive of China," Tuan Chi-jui, definitely ended his pretense of governing at Peking, fled precipitately to Tientsin...
During the week one General Wang Shih Chien, not previously mentioned in despatches, took it upon himself to keep order at Peking with a handful of mercenaries, and generally mediated between the contending factions. Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...
...consensus of ordinary news despatches was that Tuan's troops had deserted him because he had embezzled 500,000 taels ($350,000) due them as pay; and that Taso Kun had been reinstated as "President under Super-Tuchun...