Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1926, Page 4

SO-LIN, Manchurian war lord, who, before the recent fighting began, controlled fr his heada; ters at Mulden the (1 nese coast and railroad system south as Shanghai. In the fig forc back into churia a e of his subordi- nate generals, k lin, revolted and was defeated and kitled only a desperate struggle. Chang, dimnished army, holds Munchui Iy. He is backed by Japan FENG YU-HSIANG, o called “Christian’ general, who + Chang's victory over Wu Peifu 1. desertion of operative trol of Peking with Ch: | truce in which each “ally the other with suspicion, jealousy and . He is backed by Soviet Rus- h supplied him with oviet officers and in his stronghold Kalgan, the hills, miles northwest frons has | headqu less th Peking. 1 at first remained quiet at b an, and | later, fighting the governor of Chihli province in which Peking and Tientsin are situated, after se everses he finally as victor cut through to He now for strategic withdrawn his own unknown, on__ o golia or Rus TO UNIFY CHI COMBI Disband or Merge Into Mercena of provinces, ea vy, 1 What to be is not when the f original relations winning combination is much clea now than ing began. A few of the the sub-war, answered, but new equally puzzling, take The shiftings of the ele- 1ure are kaleidoscopic that cone and conundrums ing of have war lords lovds been conundrur thelr place. ments of the pl and co I Tast Autumn whether Wu Petfu enaugh to the eonle | ~wondered t he again would ecome with Feng war, ne. join eliminate then fight on of final suprem- Feng to lin 1o and out the ques| + would combine with which eliming could each spring at after tion he and Feng the other’s throat. wu and 1 slightly co-operated with Fe For today, and p haps for tomorrow, both of the rivals and F proclaimed Cha aft reverses, has and killed his former lieu- tenant, Kuo Sunglin, who degerted und attacked him. Feng has defeated the governor of Chihli province and migh to Tientsin. Wu with of his Yangtse forces in serve is, like Brer Rabbit, “lving low multiply. Wil thelr success tie, and will W comparativel wea only Chang victors ng beaten ent th miuch re- New conundrums Chang and Feng b in final b or and knock out the fresh victor Or, in view of winter's obstacles fo military movements over the rough areas to be traversed between Muk- den, Peking and Hankow, will Chang and Feng and Wu rest where they are until strength renewal of the war?” Will Envy Destroy War Lords? The most definite hint of the ve Chinese fighting is that none of the super-warlords has 2 s hold on his armies and Disloy- and treachery nearly destroyed Chang Tso-lin. He has wasted his strength in fighting with one section of his large army against another re- Lellious section. He is bitterly wran- gling with Russia in his attempt control and use the Chinese stern Raflway to move troops at his pleasure and without pay. He pos as at odds with Japan, which protects at its consulates Ku lieutenants egainst torture and slaughter by Chang’s soldiers. He threatens China with Manchurian secession. He, with his Manchuria, has heen the buffer bhetween Japan and Russia and may he Detween powerful 1 The nces are, however, that his military skill in turning de- feat into victory and the courage and vigor with using diminished forces, he has demonstrated renewal of his complete control of Manchuria have won for him new and full appre- ciation by Japan of his value as an ally and have restored his old rela- tions with Japan. Worries of the War Lords. &p athering ong his allies alty w his crushed two el which, Feng Yu-hsiang can never feel cer- tain of the loyalty of his generals who were followers of Wu Pei-fu until the latter's overthrow through Feng's treachery. Nearly beaten by the sub- warlord of Chihli, Feng has extri- cated himself and cut through to Tientsin only by Russia's aid. His triumph 1s not a Chinese, but a Rus- sian victory, and his life will doubtless be safer in Kalgan, his mountain head- quarters near Peking, or Urga in Mon- &olla, or Moscow than in Peking or Tientsin, where the local atmosphere is most unheaithful, and where Chang from themorth ax with | combined with Chang, | rled | it | A KILL OR ITS WAR LORD ational Army Its Bands of ry Soldiers, Which Now Rule Russia the for ntly se trap him, cu Mongolia 1 b In tions with monflaging his retreat \al permission which he rec a President | ot China to go conditions, he aped to Mong Wu Pei-fu h s it 4 of wealth for his pr the North O and some of the Yang-tse sub-war lords who nominally follow him are credited with slack allegiance. each £ his own hand, dominated by e won by bribery as by bullets Wu has this advantage over his rivals Chang and Feng that he has made his great drive to re He has not like the present Since in the for China Japan and from the provisional broad to study hay already to Russia L ov fu nereased his mil not zain supremacy. them, at least in paign, tried and failed popular mind he stands while Chang Feng Russia, he may have better luck than they In retalning the loval alle glance of his followers and allies Some Minor War Lord May Win. vet cam represents Wu sub-warlord seems to emerge the victorious of 1his general serimmage or battle roval | than the typical, conspicuous super- warlord, who 1s steadily qualifying to claim for himself the definition of Pasha in Marryat's novel as a man whose head is elevated above those of his fellows mainly for the purpose of more convenient decapitation. Consequently conundrums must be added one that questions which of the Lis. the Changs, the Suns, the Wus, the "engs, the Yaos. the Chaos and the | Yens, now in provincial semi-ol ity. will outlive the three super-war- lords nd revel in the unlimited loot of supreme Chinese dictator. And still another line of questions will obtrude. Will Soviet Russia con- tinue to support Feng (or his suc- ssor as Russian agent) to the very mit, making him strong that | Japan, threatened by the Russian ad- vance, will not only be compelled to support Chang, but Wu also, against a common perl> Will any other great power, alarmed at the domi- nance of Soviet Russia in North as well as South China, directly or in- directly aid Wu? Will the civil war between local war lords, backed secretly by great powers whose am- bitions clash. be transformed into fne ternational war or a new World War 1 Asia? Will the clash today over the Chinese Eastern Railway between Russia and Chang Tso-lin, nominally representing China, actually perhaps also representing Japan, be the fore- runner of a new war between Russia and Japan? Military Feudalism in China. In an article printed in an October number of the North China Herald Tong Shao-yl amplifies und makes more definite his thought concerning the reconstruction or ratier the cre- ation of a national army, concerning which he talked interestingly in his Shanghai conversation with me. “One of the most serious impedi- ments to our development as a demo- cratic nation is the return to feud- alism in the form of personal armles led by the military chieftains who re- gard the territory which they and their retainers have taken as personal domain in which they act as petty kings and in which they tax the people as they please with a view to increasing their own wealth. It is quite natural that these mllitarists should sacrifice everything to main- tain themselves in power, to hold what they have and to seek to in- crease their holdings. I do not single out any individual. The system is the same everywhere, and with all mili- tarists. Not only with the so-called super-warlords, but down to the low- est captain the mlilitary system is a return to feudalistic conceptions. quickly, some likely survivor Unless wins more to our list of new scur s0 the recent fighting Feng | Tien- | probably | As many Chinese battles ave | THE EVENING supreme war lord, defeated in by Chang through the achery ng. His headquarters are at Han kow and from that city he has con solidated the populous provinces adju- Yaugt 1 his sup- In prepara- ive to regain power as eng and Chang, he has and drilling soldie and openly he has made as yet no belligerent ve, though generals affiliated with hin from Chekiang and Shantung have fought ugainst Chang's forces and forced them to retreat to Manchuria. Wu is expected to strike not later u.ul._. the Springtime, and perhaps earli against | been our house in order of the military change ve established a business interest in ¢ we can set OF course, miny men will object to ar because they but enough of them art not to « nutional ries nuinely patriotic at h development of iponents will also agree to subordinate themselves to the civil The men will circumstances fo v exceptional advantages authority lessy he forced by to 050 onsolidate or Kill War Lords. e organization of a national army dins winistry of war re- quirves h and scientific re army and a scheme it of toops which ible for the sur. forced by economic come bandits, It re colonization in the ) that the ions of Chihli and shall not be organized out and conditions to quires & plar hwest and ntung o t done we can ilitary men to 1 is also hap ernment on waiting for 1ch other off indica ication of fonal 1utual loyal self-sacri anticipat ‘rmina ed Return of Wu Pei. Wu Peifu w redited in with having ined behind the Yangtse provinces, with ing won the allegiance of Feng's armies, which (Wu) before his Fenz's desertion lected a small {own. It was predicted that Wu would soor Loyang, his he him hav- two of supported him overthrow through and with having col- army of 30.000 of his by Tong Shao- appear publicly at ie city. and announce his return as a candidate for popular favor as a leader. political and mili tary. It was predicted that Wu's new |force and Feng's would combine against Chang, though personally Wu was not expected ever to forgive eng’s desertion or the personal in sult of the gift of a bottle of water, | alleged to have Leen sent by Feng the hard-drinking Wu. Others had predicted that Wu and Chang would ibine to eliminate Feng and then fight out the question of sole su- premacy between themselves. But events have sustained Tong Shao-yi 1 | | i detail. Characteristics of War Lords. Chang-Tso-lin. ex-bandit, churian’ war lord, with headquarters at Mukden, was credited at Peking before the fighting began with having the largest, best disciplined arm and with enjoving the active effec. tive support of Japan. He is sald |to be the best administrator among |the war lords, maintaining discipline land good order in the area of China {under his control. He was for a time 5o exhausted by fighting to crush re- bellion in his own army that Japan was pictured temporarily dubious { whether to continue to i + broken tool. 1lis wughter of the defeated Kuo reveal him as excessively cruel, a violator of all the ancient tr of Chinese warfare. His acts in the present emergency demonstrate his courage. Notwithstanding his weak- ening and loss of prestige he show no inclination to surrender to anybody and will doubtless fight, as long as he is able. to hold his against all comers { eng Yu-hsiang, {tian general, was ¢ the army next in size and discipline to that of Chang. He has a large percentage of young men under him, and they are a constantly drilling, psalm-singing aggregation. emies assert that the Chinese words that they use in singing the gospel hymns are often as un-Christian as it is possible to conceive, but this may be a campaign slander. Very few of those with whom T talk- 2d at Peking or anywhere else in China spoke appro ¢ of Feng personally. s denounced as a_treacherows ypocrite. But _General —Secretary Clinton of the Y. M. C. A.. whom I met on a steamer in Asian wa- ters, eulogized him as sincere in his Christianity and _in_his loyalty to China. Secretary Clinton had close lassoclation witl Feng and knew him well. But Feng will have great dif- flculty in overcoming the unfavorable public opinion concerning him, both Chinese and foreign, which his deser- tion of Wu has brought upon him. the so-called Chris- dited with having Will be the clog to his advancement to supreme power, corresponding to the obstacle in Chang’s case of the prejudice against him on the part of the pure Chinese, who wish no more rule from Manchuria. Moreover, the new China, if finally unified, will toler- ate as ruler neither a puppet of Rus- sia like Feng nor a puppet of Japan, as Chang is believed to be. Wu and the Water Wagon. Wu-Pei-fu was at one time in supreme control. Overthrown by Chang Tso-lin, through the treachery of Feng Yu-hsiang, he fled for his life, and escaped with difficulty. He main- tained himself in defeat in high public opinion in China by refraining from taking refuge in any foreign conces- sion. He found his refuge in the up- per reaches of the Yangtse River. A gunboat or two constituted the nu- cleus of his new army and navy. He has now, it is said, through untir- ing energy and diplomacy and extor- tion by threats filled his war chest and combined and organized the Yangtse provinces in his support and is again a formidable and threatening figure to Chang, who defeated him, and to Feng, who betrayed him. Wu is credited with being of higher intellectual caliber than the other war lords. He is a student of the Chinese classics. He is declared to exgel in skillful general as a prophet in general and almost in | the Man-! 1s€ him or to | ditions | Manchuria Their ex;| Distrust of his sincerity and loyalty | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ship, and in general in qualities of leadership. On the other hand, Wu, when In power, was arbitrary and despotic, and a hard-drinker, credited with absorbing at least a bottle of brandy every day. 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