The Archive · 1933

MARSHAL FENG'S DEPARTURE

Uneasiness Still Felt i Wish for in the North: Japanese Settlement Fro Our Own Peking, Aug. 15.

So Marshal Peng, Vu-hsiang has ter "all and has re than, to live under the protecting wing' of his former associate, Han Fu-chu, It is interesting to note hat his voyage into what must now be about his tenth term of exile, partook rather of the nature of a' triumphal progress, than of a secret flight in' disaster and disgrace, At the stations of Fengtai, the junction for Peking, and of Tienisin his train was besieged by swarms, not only "of journalists, But also. of officials, of all kinds, Doth civil" and military, even in= cluding representatives of—the Peking. authorities. 'The. interviews that he gave to the Press mot cast much light on' Chahar affairs, for Feng has the naughty habit of avoiding replies by saying cynically, "Of course, you gentlemen know all. about" these Shings much better. than a humble person like myself", 'He has apparently been further studying Karl Marx his sojourn in Kalgan, for he repeated-used the. expression "plutoerats" when speaking of his political opponents, of whom he hinted that they had' now lost Chahar for all, which' he himself fould have saved for China, I tone point he was quite unorigi for like all politicians who come a cropper—at the very 8 ime ex-President Machado giving voice to exactly the same Sentiments in far-off Cuba—Feng explained his currencier by saying that he had acted thus purely out love for his country" and. in order to spare it the horrors fresh "civil war. However, the Journalists were doubtless "fully compensated for the lack of start. Hing headlines, by the present of five apples which he gave to each of them, as Was duly recorded in the "Press messages, The real Reason for, Feng's collapse. is undoubtedly due to the fact that the weed to support hey doy not they have other plang in view,

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