Word: wu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal Wu, striking a table with his fist, cried: "Not only the Japanese compel me, but God also! Well, the answer is still...
...then ascended a sacred platform, knelt before the benign, adipose image, prayed for divine guidance in drawing an answer from a set of specially prepared lots. As he was praying, the altar attendants, who were obviously in the pay of Japanese, stacked the lots, so that Marshal. Wu drew...
General Kawamoto went to Shanghai for consultations, returned, begged the Marshal importunately. Firm as the Great Wall, Wu Pei-fu again refused...
...Marshal Wu was touched. "Wait," he said. "Let me ask Buddha...
...days later the honest Marshal had a "toothache"; 13 days later he died. General Kawamoto also fell mysteriously ill, but he was up & around in plenty of time to be at Marshal Wu's bedside when death came to the only honest warlord in China...