In addition to the many conversations we have had at meals, Gen. Feng gave me two special interviews answering questions I put to him for the special object of writing this article.
I began by asking him his attitude to the various parties which occupy such a prominent position in the social world of China to-day. He laughingly replied that according to various '"<yell-informed'' correspondents of various papers he had been leading a chameleon sort of life of late. Starting im with the fighting between Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, he was, of course, of the Wu party. Then when there was an alleged breach between Wu Pei-fu and Tsao Kun, he was assigned to the Tsao party. Next he became President Li's man, and somewhat later Chang Tso-lin's. Then he was once more attached to Tsao, again detached that he might be joined to Sun Won, whom he has left to come back a third time to Tsao. When the list was finished, the laughter died out of the voice and in a tenser mood he added: "Tell anybody, I, Feng Vu-hsiang, will help any party that convinces me it is out for the country and the people; I will oppose any party that I am convinced puts its own interests first and those of the nation and people next. I have not been, am not, and will not be committed to any party under a pledge to support it right or wrong." He added one item, not as far as I know, referred to by the "Well-informed." One party leader made Gen. Feng a definite offer to pay him four months' arrears and to continue from the date of agreement to furnish full pay ($370,000) for each month. The offer was declined.
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