Word: wu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events in China which have been cloaked in obscurity for some months took on an intelligible significance last week. Two happenings of major interest: 1) the Nine-Power Customs Conference* assembled at Peking, seat of the present weak Chinese National Government; 2) the great warlord, or "Super-Tuchun," Wu Pei-fu, emerged from an enforced retirement and appeared at Hankow as "Commander-in-Chief of the Central Provinces"-an alliance which he has apparently patched up by intrigue and which he claims leagues about him "14 of China's 18 provinces...
...this point, Wu Pei-fu* would attack Feng from the rear in an attempt to regain the commanding position from which Feng (treacherously?) hurled him last year...
...least notable item in this theorv is the mention of Wu Pei-fu, for IHt.U or nothing has been heard of him in mf»"<-moons. Yet there was a time when mar-expected that he would succeed wh<"- Yuan-Shi Kai failed-unify China h. military force and constitutional principles...
Last autumn, after the defeat of President Tsao Kun and General Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10), Chang, one of the victors, retired to Manchuria with words of peace, promising to keep his army out of politics...
...General Wu received the travelers most courteously and insisted on giving them angered escort for the first part of their journey by cart. The escort left them at the border of the province of Honau? which at that was infested with bandits, and the party passed safely in the peaceful province of Shensi...