Word: wu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
General Lu Chunglin, commander of the Feng troops, thereupon tried the old trick of offering to share Peking with Wu, if the latter would abandon Chang. The week passed while these ticklish negotiations were in progress. Late despatches reported that Wu had refused to listen to Lu; and that the latter, having given up hope of holding Peking, was rapidly withdrawing all the Feng armies to their great northern base, Kalgan...
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...
...MacMurray was requested last month to cable home a list of the U.S. citizens then resident at Hsinyanchow, which was besieged by Wu (TIME, March 1). In reply came a list of U.S. citizens known to have been in that city one year previously. No later list was obtainable...
...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 Wu...