Word: tuchun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
...Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
From Mukden, Super -Tuchun Chang Tso-lin telegraphed a demand that the Soviet Ambassador to China, M. Karakhan, should immediately quit Peking...
Political Situation. The consensus of meagre despatches was that the soldiers of Super-Tuchun Feng, who have dominated Peking for 18 months (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924, et. seq.), found themselves quite outmaneuvered, early in the week, by the besieging troops of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang, and those of the Central Chinese Super-Tuchun Wu (TIME, April...
...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...