Word: wu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the necessary passports secured, money telegraphed ahead to post offices of the larger western cities, and with a letter to General Wu Pei Fu safely stowed in the dispatch box, the expedition left Pekin in August. It went to Cheng Chow on the Pekin-Hankow railroad, then west to the end of the railroad that will some day connect the coast with the western provinces...
Last October, Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu evicted Tuchun Lu of Chekiang (TIME, Oct. 27) ; but the victory in the North of Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin over Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10) reversed matters and Tuchun Lu, ousted from the Province of Chekiang, was given the Military Governorship of Kiangsu in place of Chi, ousted. This meant that Shanghai had fallen for the second time and was again in Lu's hands...
...Centre, General Wu Pei-fu, until recently the biggest man in China, prepared, with his cronies, for war upon the legions of the Peking warlords...
...Wu Kuang-hsin...
...defection of General Feng (TIME, Nov. 3) left Super-Tuchun Wu in a virtually untenable position. Harrassed from the North by the advancing troops of Super-Tuchun Chang, he conducted a retreat on Peking with the object of ridding the world of "Traitor" Feng. The odds were too heavy. Several times, military observers declared, Chang could have annihilated the Wu army, but he always left a loophole for its retreat by way of the sea. Finally, Wu requested an armistice from General Feng. The war stopped. Peace negotiations proceeded. Chang was reported retiring to Mukden, his capital, but this seemed...