GUNS SILENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 7

GUNS SILENT.

Practically No Fighting in Far East. CHINESE GENERAL RETIRES. SHANGHAI, March 23. Practically all fighting has ceased in North China, but wounded continue to reach the main hospital. bases. At least 10,000 are receiving treatment, v On the ground of ill-health General Wang Ching-wei, President of tho Executive Council, the foremost left wing leader of the Kuomintang, who .recently returned from a prolonged holiday in Germany, has refused to continue to hold Government office. He returned unexpectedly, from Nanking to Shanghai to-day. The decision has caused much concern to the Government. Wang was an advocate of continued resistance to tho Japanese as the only salvation for the country.

JAP. PROGRAMME. GOVERNMENT OF JEHOL. SHANGHAI, March 23. The Japanese and Manchukuo. authorities announce a new programme for the government of Jehol. - Plans are being formulated for the reorganisation of the political and economio conditions of the province. There is a vast, scheme" of highway construction, and an exhaustive survey of the natural resources—coal, petroleum, gold and timber. The province is to be divided into three areas—desert, forest and agricultural zones. An attempt is to be made to make the province self-supporting. The finances are being placed under tho control of a central bank in Manchukuo, which gradually will replace the old currency.