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Such logic, profoundly philosophical, is unanswerable. Men with the vision to betray superiors who are later ruined and discredited, have not seldom achieved that universal esteem which may soon be the portion of Feng Yu-hsiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strongest Man | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...feet tall. No brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strongest Man | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms, another carpenters, another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strongest Man | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Statesmen thought that the Nationalist Declaration will lead to negotiations of the very largest world import, IF, and only if the vast and various armies and "Nationalists" populations are now able to calling achieve a work themselves ing solidarity. Such professed National ists as Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who has a personal army of 195,000 men, are capable of resuming the status of regional dictators they have held in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...North China Daily Mail said significantly last week: "Whether he uses his strength for good or evil, Feng Yu-hsiang is the strongest man in China today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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