Word: tso-lin
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While this storm was still in abeyance the Nationalists pushed their advantage and sent three armies rapidly advancing toward Peking which correspondents declared "certain to fall" on the strength of a doubtful rumor that famed War Lord Chang Tso-lin was withdrawing his forces to his great war base at Markden Manchuria...
...great barbaric war lord of Manchuria and North China, Chang Tso-lin, remained last week the only Chinese still potent enough perhaps to stem the conquering Nationalists their present line along the Yangtze River and .keep them from overrunning North" China as they have South China...
...Chang Tso-lin is a great lord in the good old way. He favors swallows' nest soup, tugs delightedly at his large ears when pleased, has his own officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight...
...carefully distinguished from his nominal overlord, the great Chang Tso-lin, "Chang of Manchuria...
...Britons arriving at Shanghai from the North, last week, told how the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin recently sat in at a Mah Jong game at Peking for 37 consecutive hours, tired out three sets of opponents, and finished with approximately the same sum with which he had sat down to play. For a week thereafter, he was unapproachable, ordered cut off the heads of two of his own officers for the usually insignificant offense of forcing their way into a Peking theatre without paying for seats...