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...result was frantic scrambling in the bazaars of Peiping (once Peking) by one-time Chinese courtiers, court eunuchs and palace servants who paid fantastic prices last week for Manchu robes and bits of court regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...
...Sore Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled...
While Minister Soong was away, famed "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang had been active too. Big and bluff, he is a typical North Chinese but he has the nimble brains of such Southerners as Chiang Kaishek. When last month he suddenly ended his bluff as Commander-in-Chief of a People's National Salvation Anti-Japanese Army, pocketed the People's contributions and showed a smiling face in Peiping, he announced that he was going into retirement on the Sacred Mountain of Taishan, in Shantung. Last week his smiling face emerged Cheshire Cat-like again from...
...Government fear him. Cultured Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...battling for China's independence against Japanese invaders!" read armbands recently stitched on the sleeves of soldiers commanded by China's Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang who promptly received cash contributions from numerous Chinese patriots (TIME, July 31) Last week, without having fought so much as a skirmish since the stitching Marshal Feng thriftily pocketed all cash received, prudently announced, "I am going into retirement." He thus greatly relieved China's Nanking Government which feared to see its de facto peace with Japan broken by Feng or any other Chinese war lord whom the Japanese would...