General Feng Yu-hsiang
馮玉祥字焕章
General Feng Yu-hsiang was born at Ch’ao Hsien, Anhui province, in 1880. When he was 16 years old he joined the Peiyang Military School. Before graduation, in 1898, he left the college and enrolled himself as a private in the “Wu Wei Yu Chun.” Subsequently he was appointed a Commander of a company under the Ninth Division of the Nanyang troops. While commanding, he attended the Chiang Yu Tang, or Lecture Hall for training soldiers. Later he was recommended by his superior to be a regular student of the Paoting Military Academy whence he was graduated. Marshal Wang Shih-chen and the late General Yang Shan-te, both leaders of the Peiyang Army, took great interest in General Feng and highly recommended him to Marshal Tuan Chi-jui for appointment. But this was frustrated by a commanding officer of the "I Chun” who was jealous of
