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...Super-Tuchun Chang of Manchuria, overlord of the Provinces of Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungkiang, allied with Dr. Sun-Yat-sen, of Canton and Tuchun Lu of Chekiang. Driven from Peking, where he was Pooh Bah in 1922, by Super-Tuchun Wu, Chang seeks to oust Wu and President Tsao Kun and resume his lordly sway in the Capital. Like all Chinese leaders, he interprets his ambition as a step toward reunifying China. Possibly the whole trouble with China is that there are too many leaders trying to do the same thing. It was rumored during the past week, that...
...Super-Tuchun Wu of Chihli, Shantung, Honan, Kiangsu, Shansi, Shensi and Szechwan, greatest power and most brilliant military genius in China. He is the military power of the Peking Government and is allied with Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu against Chang and his cronies. His precise strength was not known, due to the fact that it was not certain that all the provinces under his sway would permit themselves to be swayed his way. In China, as elsewhere, every man is first and foremost for himself...
President Tsao Kun, Tuchun of Chihli, all of which is now over-lorded by Wu, is one of the Chinese wonders. Bordering upon 60 years of age, most of his career was necessarily made during the Manchu regime. It was, and still is, considered a marvel that Tsao, once a lowly coolie, should have risen to the power and riches (he is said to be worth about $40,000,000) that...
Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Tuchun of Manchuria, an avowed Imperialist-that is, a Monarchist. He is a young man of great brains and tremendous power, but no match for Gen. Wu, who once sadly defeated him. Manchuria is about the size of Texas and Colorado, forming enough territory in northern China to make Marshal Chang's title of War Lord of the North no empty epithet...
...Tuchuns are military governors of the Provinces, or, more popularly, War Lords. They are the republican prototypes of the old Mandarin Viceroys and hold much the same power. Officially, there is no such thing as a Tuchun, the office having been abolished...