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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Marshal Yen Hsi-shan has built up, as the famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, a national reputation for probity.
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The famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, General Yen Hsi-shan officially abdicated his command to General Huang All this meant that brutally invaded China was rallying strongly last week, apparently united more closely than ever.
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Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei.
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To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds.
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