Word: wu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, until recently "War lord of Central China," long a potent bulwark against Communism, found his forces crumbling and his officers deserting by dozens last week as he retreated from Hankow, his one-time stronghold on the Yangtze, to Chengchow in northern Honan Province...
...scene of conflict was of course Hupeh Province, the stronghold of Wu. Against this base the Cantonese troops of Chang Kai-check, subsidized by Russian gold, have been making steady progress (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). They were reported last week to have driven Wu from Hankow on the Yangtze, but all information from the battle sector was admittedly untrustworthy...
...thus waiting, was playing the usual game of a Chinese Super-Tuchun when not actually at war. He was trying to decide which of two contending armies was the stronger, so as to throw his soldiers on the winning side. Hourly telegrams arrived from Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Kai-check informing Sun that each of these death-grappled war lords believed himself soon to be victorious, but would pay heavily and gladly for re-inforcements from...
...best proof that Wu was holding his own came in the form of a telegram from Sun. He, having pondered well the strength of Wu and Chang, telegraphed Chang a 24-hour ultimatum to get out of Hupeh province and moved up like thunder from the coast with his troops to the aid of Wu...
Yang. One General Yang Sen, a little sloe-eyed commander, 45, nominally subordinate to Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (see above), caused the affray by seizing the British river freight boats Wan-tung and Wanhsien. General Yang alleged that the Wanliu, another British freighter owned by the same company as those seized had previously upset two sampans filled with his soldiers. Despite the protests of the local British consul General Yang placed 300 soldiers on the captured freighters who promptly locked the white officers and passengers in their cabins, fed them but sparingly...