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...have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious contact with those of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME, June 22). Last week Nanking split the Kwangtung warlords by the usual Chinese financial method. Kwangtung's No. 2 warlord General Yu Han-mou and nine battle planes landed in Nanking. Whereupon Chiang's parliament boldly dissolved the rebellious Kwangtung Government, named General Yu peace preservation chief in Kwangtung and sent him back south to try to take over...
...Chinese Government cannot very well be taken to pieces by a Shanghai editor & publisher, but what Mr. Woodhead might have written can be surmised from his manner of cutting loose about recent Chinese leaders who are barely over the threshold of retirement, such as the famed "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
...week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China's chaos, has retired to a mountain monastery in Tibet to polish up his calligraphy and his poetry, but he has always remained a hero to the Chinese masses...
...racial traitor in this oblique Japanese sense was Chinese General Shang Chen, sent to Tientsin last week to replace dismissed General Yu. General Shang popped around at once to pay a "courtesy call" on Tientsin's Japanese garrison commander. Lieut.-General Yoshijiro Umezu who hospitably opened bottle after bottle of the best champagne, put on a drinking bout with lusty toasts "to amity...