Word: tuchun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sept. 8 et seq.) that they passed comprehension. Bloody fighting in the North and bloody fighting around Shanghai took place without decisive result. Losses were heavy. A rumor persisted that many of the Peking Government's troops had gone over to the enemy. One report stated that Super-Tuchun Chang of Manchuria was advancing on Peking; the rest that he was retiring on Mukden, his capital. The only report that all were agreed upon was one describing the opening by Chang of his own private Foreign Office...
...contending Tuchuns continued their war (TIME, Sept. 15 et seq.) with great show and many loud noises, but neither side gained any appreciable advantages. In the north, slight progress was made by Tuchun Chang of Manchuria. In the south, the army of Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu drove its enemy two miles nearer Shanghai, their coveted goal; then rain stopped the engagement...
...Super-Tuchun Chang was exceptionally busy behind his lines. In a proclamation "To all whom it may concern," he offered $50,000 for the head of President Tsao Kun or that of Super-Tuchun Wu, his bitterest enemy. If he were permitted the great pleasure of seeing either one of them alive as prisoner in his own camp, the reward would...
...Manchurian Super-Tuchun was also said to have come to an important understanding with Russia concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway. The gist of this accord was to the effect that it liberated two divisions of Chang's troops, which were immediately sent to the front for service against the Central forces...
South. Dr. Sun in the South continued to concentrate his troops but, as far as could be ascertained, no soldiers had been sent to aid Tuchun...