Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capable young Chinaman called by fawning flatterers "The Perfect Soldier" admitted last week, after 17 days of prudent concealment, the death of his father, Chang Tso-lin, the great War Lord of Manchuria, who was bombed after evacuating Peking (TIME, June...
...seventeen days served to enable Son & Heir Chang Hsueh-liang to consolidate his position with apparent success, so that last week he proclaimed himself War Lord at Mukden, Manchuria, and admitted that he had inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure...
...have been ten years in war and know its horrors. I want to lift this scourge from our people...
...effect the enemies of Feng-and they are many, white, yellow,-"But really, you know, Feng has conquered those same cities before, in so many other names. . . . Feng's a traitor, a Judas! Of course the Missionaries like him. He's the only Chinese War Lord they ever converted. But watch out for Feng! He gets his arms from Moscow, got 27,000,000 cartridges. He'll ditch the Nationalists yet and keep Peking for himself...
...Chinese Republic was now becoming fictional as succeeding Presidents fell more and more under the dominance of War Lords such as Wu Pei-fu. But the Christian General had been all the while building up a personal army which is today unique in the ability of its troops to support themselves without looting-a common practice of other Chinese armies but punished by Marshal Feng with Death. Instead of an army of bandits, why not an army of artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms...