WANG’S TREATY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 45, 3 December 1940, Page 3

WANG’S TREATY.

“ARCH TRAITOR OF REPUBLIC.”

CHINESE CABINET’S WARNING

CHUNGKING, December X

The Chinese response to the treaty between Wang Ching Wei (head of the puppet government at Nanking) > and Japan, is a warning to other countries that recognition of the “arch traitor of the Republic” would be considered an unfriendly act. „ The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Wang Chung-Hui) declared that the conclusion by Japan with the puppet organisation at Nanking of what purports to be a treaty is the culmination of a series of aggressive acts on her part, designed to overthrow law and order, not only in China but also in the whole Pacific. The National Government of tiyj Republic of China reiterates most emphatically that Wang Oiling-Wei is an arch traitor to the Republic and that the puppet regime at Nanking is an illegal organisation, whose acts, whatever their character, .are null and void. Should any foreign country choose to accord recognition to the puppet organisation the Government of China would consider it an unfriendly act and would be constrained to discontinue normal relations with such country.