Word: yu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those of the 400,000,000 Chinese people who heard about it hailed with wild delight this magnificent success, their first major victory in ten months of war. Cracked China's famed "Christian General," General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The Japanese are soft-shelled turtles in a closed...
...Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times the Japanese lost briefly towns and villages along their main rail lines of supply & conquest. Impudent, chuckling, the Chinese Communist Yu Cheng-tsao cracked that his bands are hunting Japanese in a "Communist State" just formed by "7,000,000 Chinese farmers" in Hopeh...
...Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
...Government started something it is not going to finish?" angrily at Nanking last week boomed massive "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang who, born a peasant and still a peasant, delights to shame more refined Chinese officials when he can. There was last week no getting around the fact that the Nanking Government had sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With...