Feng has long been associated with the Bolshevists, though the
degree of his deVotion has varied according AO events. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says that Feng recently appointed as his adviser George Hsu Chien, who was expelled from the Nationalist Party as a Communist. Another of Feng's advisers is Mahendra 1Pratap, who now calls himself the representative of Afghanistan, although he was already notorious as a Hindu revolutionary. During the Great War he was at Kabul and also visited Germany and Persia. . Since then he has been in Russia and was present with Borodin at Hankow. Yen Hsi-shan for a long time remained :neutral in the Chinese civil war, and was thereby able tohis eep Province quiet and comparatiVely prosperous. k- • • If he should become the principal figure: at Peking, Nationalism might possibly enter upon a phase of suffiCient moderation and stability for the Powers to be able to renew negotiations.
