JAPAN'S SUPPORT FOR NEW CHINA REGIME

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 7

JAPAN'S SUPPORT FOR NEW CHINA REGIME

HOPE FOR PEACE.

Appeal To Powers To Share In General Amity.

CO-OPERATION DESIRED

United Press Association.— Copyright.

(Received noon.)

LOXDOX, March 31

The Japanese Embassy has issued a statement emphasising the Imperial Government's support of the new Central Government in China under Wang Ching-wei, and the hope that the Powers will forthwith contribute towards the establishment of peace in East Asia.

The statement adds that Japan has no intention of excluding such peaceful economic activities of third Powers as will conform with the new situation. On the contrary, she desires to co-opur-ite with these Powers and share with them tha benefits of international amity.

Kenascent Cliiua has started on the road to progress, says the statement, but Japan will not lay down arms untii remaining pro-Comniuni>t and antiJapanese forces awaken from their illusory dreams. Usurping Chinese Rights. The Chinese Embassy has issued a Government statement denouncing the Nanking puppet Government as a Japanese instrument for usurping China's sovereign rights and destroying her independence and territorial and administrative integrity.

"The puppet Government will be used to overthrow international law and order and to nullify the Xine-Power Treaty and eliminate third Powers," says the statement. ''Those who compose it are depraved traitors who are endangering the safety of their own country.

"Any nation which recognises the puppet Government will infringe international law."

DREARY FARCE.

Inauguration Of Wang's New

Regime.

NO RECOGNITION BY U.S.A.

NEW YORK, March 31

Amid elaborate ceremonies yesterday Wang Ching-wei was installed* as head of the so-called National Government of China, eays a message from Nanking.

The president of the Chungking regime, Lin Sen, radioed an appeal for the destruction of the "traitor" Wang. All day there were demonstrations in which effigies of Wang and the members of hie entourage were burned in the middle of the citv.

The inauguration of Wang Ching-wei's Government was the dreariest and most inefficiently managed farce Nanking hae witnessed for many centuries, says the Shanghai correspondent of the " "New York Times." Wang and hie entourage paraded in rain before immense portraits of the late Sun Yat Sen on which were crossed flags, legitimately the property of the Chungking Government.

Wang was proclaimed leader of the National Government under the watchful eyes of numerous uniformed Japanese officere.

Commenting that the attitude of the T-'nited States toward the uee of armed force as an instrument of national policy was well known, the Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, announced that America would continue to recognise Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's Government. There was ample reason to believe it wa* supported by the great majoritv of ihe Chinese.