Yen Hsi-shan
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Most potent of those who moved from North China to Nanking last week was Ihe estimable Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province.
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Generals Yen Hsi-shan and Han Fu-chu warlords of Shansi-Suiyan and Shantung provinces respectively, will command the left and right wings; command of the important centre will be divided between Generals Liu Chih and Feng Chi-han.
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In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord.
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Marshal Yen Hsi-shan received us in one of the small visiting rooms in his huge compound.
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The victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier.
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