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Despatches reported that Super-Tuchun Chang, who is reconsolidating his grip upon Manchuria (TIME, Jan. 4 et ante), has apparently incurred the active displeasure...
...basis of these charges M. Tchitcherin sent a threatening telegram to Super-Tuchun Chang demanding the release of M. Ivanoff "within three days" and observance of the Chino-U. S. S. R. treaties, which guarantee Chinese non-interference with the railway in question...
Feng Adroit. Super-Tuchun Feng, the so-called "Christian protector of Peking," resorted to a typical Chinese strategy last week in his campaign against General Li, the Governor of Chihli Province, whom he has been besieging at Tientsin (TIME, Dec. 28. et ante...
General Kuo and his wife hastily disguised themselves as coolies and attempted to hide in a cellar. There they were seized by General Yang, a lieutenant of Super-Tuchun Chang. General Kuo's wife attempted to escape and was instantly and mercifully shot dead. For Kuo remained a harder fate. He watched while his dead wife's arms and head were cut off. Then his own legs were hacked from his body and as he swooned he was decapitated...
...Super-Tuchun Chang completed his revenge by ordering that the remains of General Kuo and his wife should be paraded about Mukden, spitted upon sharpened poles. At length they were deposited upon the grave of one of Chang's faithful generals, who was killed by Kuo at the inception of the mutiny. Late despatches reported that General Kuo is survived by four widows, since only his fifth and favorite wife fell into the hands of Chang. Curiously enough, Super-Tuchun Chang's fifth wife gave birth to a child on the eve of the battle...