Tsinghua and Wuhan Now Back to Normal Peiping, Feb, 24.
Things are undoubtedly working out according to plan, For Gen, Doihara was in excellent humour and in fine fettle at the interview that gave foreign correspondents last week. The Interview "must have been regarded as a high-light Jin the activities of foreign correspondents here, No less than twenty of them {umed up for It, the most kely and unlikely persons; people one ever knew before were journalists fa all, They were certainly not disappointed.
Tt was a remarkable Intervie tess perhaps for ils news value, than "asa brilliant example of the gentle art of (elling nothing with the utmost show of frankness and perfect good humour. The general simply made tings round. us and left us gasping. When T got back and looked through the detailed notes that I had taken, began to wonder what I had had for tif, as none of the answers seemed to fit the questions to which they, were attached. However, on checking with others, 1 found that T wad got everything" perfectly cor rectly. That was simply the way the hi Interview had gone.
The Interpretation too, was 9 model of conciseness. The general often replied to our questions at considerable length and for (we or three minutes on end. These lengthy disquisitions the interpreter would sum up In one or two curt sentences. The interview was carried on Accompaniment of clicking cameras fand whirring cinema cameras, 50 that one could hardly hear the inter-proter's voice. After about half an hour of this sort of thing. the gener exhausted no doubt by the volume, He-not the depth, of his explanations, suggested an adjournment for fur~ ther photograph in the open. There ensued a veritable orgy of picture taking and of posing in the company fof the redoubtable general, 1 must admit that I retired before the second Interview, having a ight lache, due perhaps to the stunning revelations, or Iso pose albly to the thunder of the camers Strangely enough, my failure to fend seems In no way to have im= paired the accuracy of the account. as able to give of this historic Interview.
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