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...past twelvemonth potent, progressive President Chiang has brought peace to most of China by driving two rival War Lords out of China, bringing a third into his regime. Nos. 1 & 2 are ex-Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi ("The Model Province") and ex-Generalissimo Feng Yu-hsiang of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...troops which were not his closed in upon Peking last week "President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, appeared to have captured the Honan airplane base of his enemies by a surprise onslaught of his famed "Big Sword Cavalry...
Money remained last week the chief weapon in China's civil war (TIME, May 19). President Chiang Kai-shek announced that one of his major foes, famed Christian Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, had offered to sell out and change sides for $3,000,000 Chinese silver dollars or $810,000 U. S. gold dollars. This may or may not have been true but it was significant. It lent special and peculiar point to the opening at Shanghai last week of "the greatest mint in the world...
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang maintains the largest private army in the world (150,000 men) on a plane of sobriety, industry (every soldier must know a trade) and Old Testament battling Christianity...