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Peking. The onetime imperial city, where Mr. MacMurray dictated his cablegram, was either in the hands of Super-Tuchun Wu Peifu's troops, which had united with the garrison of Super-Tuchun Feng Yuhsiang's troops; or the attacking Wu troops (TIME, April 5) held only part of the city, and were still being resisted by the Feng troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Perpetual Flux | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

Feng and Wu. Super-Tuchun Feng, who has dominated Peking since he traitorously seized it from Wu (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924), was last week either at Urga, Mongolia, whither he had fled; or he had sneaked back over 1,000 miles to Peking and was waiting there in secret to dicker with Wu, when the latter should arrive from a place unstated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Perpetual Flux | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

Chang. Troops of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun, Chang Tso-lin, which were supposed to have helped the Wu troops attack Peking (TIME, April 12), were either "closing in on the city" (with intent unstated) ; or they were presumably passing the time by looting in the suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Perpetual Flux | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...armies of Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu (TIME, April 5) moved upon Peking in force last week. Chang's airplanes dropped bombs near the foreign quarter. Super-Tuchun Feng's armies partly evacuated the city, milled about uncertainly in the suburbs. A Chinese bride was killed by a bomb as she rode to her wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peking Bombed | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Bombardment. The mercenaries were those of Super-Tuchun Feng, who has long controlled Peking. They rolled up a few pieces of field artillery behind the old fort of Taku at the mouth of the river. Merrily they blazed away at all ships which tried to enter it-at many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Pei-ho Plugged | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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