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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 71, 17 December 1937, Page 7

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PEKING GOVERNMENT Nanking Regime Denounced JAPANESE INFLUENCE (Received December 17, 1.5 a.m.) London, December 16. The Peking correspondent of “Thd Times” reports a proclamation announcing the formation of a new Government, which denounces the Nanking regime for imposing tyrannical measures and allowing the territory of China to be diminished. It declares that the teachings of the Kuomintang led to war with Japan. The members of the new regime, therefore, have decided to form a provisional Government for the purpose of restoring the democratic State, cleansing the country of party dictatorship and Communism. The Government henceforth will assume all foreign obligations. All the members of the new administration which has been formed under Japanese military pressure, held office iu the Peking Government before the rule of Chang Tso-lin and individually command a measure of respect. Three commissioners established to control the executive, the judiciary, and the legislature. They are, respectively, Wang Wem-in, who held various posts under the Republic; Tung Mang, Minister of Justice in 1921; Tang Erh-ho, a former Minister, and latterly’ a member of the Hopei-Chahar Ciuncil.

The regime has received de facto recognition from Japan and seeks recognition by' foreign Powers as • the Government of China. Tang rh-ho describes the Government as that of all the parts of China from which the forces of the Kuomintang have been driven. The appointment of Japanese advisers has already begun.