Word: tuchun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chang Avenged. Last week the mills of Chinese poetic justice ground a traitor and his wife exceeding small. The traitor was General Kuo Sung-lien, once the most trusted henchman of the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin. Less than a month ago (TIME, Dec. 7) he mutinously turned against Chang and forced him to flee to Mukden, his capital, there to make a last stand...
Feng v. Li. The attack launched by Super-Tuchun Feng, "The Christian Protector of Peking," upon General Li Ching-ling, the Civil Governor of Chihle (TiME, Dec. 21), continued and showed signs of developing into a notable engagement. Because of this fracas Peking was completely cut off from railroad communication with the seacoast, since the embattled forces blew up numerous bridges on the Peking-Tientsin railway...
...confusion of highly paid special correspondents, the Chinese situation last week resisted all efforts at disentanglement. Super-Tuchun Chang, who has lorded it for several years in Manchuria, was evidently hard pressed by his revolted subordinate, General Küo (TIME, Dec. 7). But opinions differed as to whether he was making a last stand near Mukden, his capital, or had fled to Japan accompanied by his Occidental adviser, "General" Frank Sutton, famed British adventurer (TIME...
...only other incident of note centred about a military excursion sent by Super-Tuchun Feng, the so-called "Christian protector of Peking," against General Li Chingling, the Civil Governor of Chihli, with headquarters at Tientsin...
Throughout the week, Tuan Chi-Jui, head of the impotent Peking Government of China, remained ready to flee from his capital at any moment should Super-Tuchun Feng avail himself of the upset to Chang's power and decide to take personal control of Peking instead of merely dominating it. Feng, however, contented himself with adding a few divisions to the garrison which he maintains at Peking; and called upon Chang to retire to private life, threatening to wipe out his remaining forces...