The Archive · 1937

GEN. FENG REALLY A HUNGARIAN

Vienna Paper Reveals Quaint Biography Vienna, Jan, 21.

newspaper "Wellblait" (World News") to-day declared that "Gen, Feng Yuchsiang, vice-chairman' of the Military" Affairs Commission of is nota whose real ame Is Trenaeus Fengya.

The "Wellblatt" published inter~ views with Judge Tgor Fengya, who claimed to be Gen. Feng's brother, and also with the Rev. Valentia Balogh, a priest "who claims that hho went to school" with Gen, Feng forty years ago.

"The priest said that Gen, Feng was the son of an orthodox vicar in a Hungarian village, finished college the town of Ungvar in 1697, after which he studied law at Eperjes high" school. "According to the priest's story, he loft Hungary when hhineteen and emigrated to the United States where he slarted asa boot black but later became a sailor whaling vessel, Feng, the priest continued, later settled in Greenland and founded his own whaling company, becoming the richest man in Greenland about 1910. 'The priest said that in 1912 he peared in China commanding of teregulars in Inner Mongolia, 'The Informant also said that Gen, Feng had converted thousands of Chinese, including Gen, Chiang Kalshek, (6 Catholicism (although it well' known that the Generalissimo was baptized asa Southern Methodist). The priest claims that Gen, Feng has corresponded with his brother and promised to visit his Hungarian relatives when the Chinese situation permits.

Tu any event, the priest was quoted by the "Wellbiatt" as saying, Gen, Feng expects to see once again the parsonage in which he was born, Well asthe tomb of his parents, before he dies—United Press, Gen, Feng, seen by the Central News, denied that he was a Hun-

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