Word: yu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famed Chinaman of today is Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, called 'the Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...
...such, Generalissimo Chiang, a slender high strung Chinaman, was first to fling himself upon the glass topped Sun coffin, last week, and loudest to sob. He controlled himself only when raised up and embraced by the towering Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July...
Pregnant with significance was the continued harmony existing, last week, between the Nationalist Government and their great, voluntarily subordinate ally: the Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest personal army in the world. Whether Feng will remain subordinate to the Nationalists, seize power by a coup d'état, or quietly wangle* himself into control of their Government is a question only now beginning to be answered...
...conference of the Nationalist Marshals in Peking last week Feng Yu-hsiang proposed that "all except the best disciplined" Nationalist soldiers should now be disbanded, since victory has been won. The Christian Marshal's worst enemies will not deny that his troops are the best disciplined in all China; and therefore his proposal seemed the week's Perfect Wangle...
...charge that Feng Yu-hsiang is a "Red" or a "Bolshevik" is palpably absurd. The sanctity of private property and of the Holy Trinity are the rocks upon which he stands like a Bland Bronze Colossus. But the Soviet Government finds it desirable to subsidize Feng Yu-hsiang. He visited Moscow in 1926, and when the Soviet Embassy at Peking was raided in 1927, a warrant having been issued by the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, there were found documents-Feng's friends say forged documents-which showed that he had received from Moscow 27,350,545 cartridges...