CHINESE LEADER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 7

CHINESE LEADER

MR. WANG CHING-WEI

REFUSAL TO HOLD OFFICE

CONCERN AT NANKING

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, March 23. On the ground of ill-health, Mr. Wang Ching-Wei, president of the Executive Yuan and the foremost Leftist leader of the Kuomintang, who recently returned from a prolonged holiday in. Germany, refused to continue to hold Government office. He returned unexpectedly from Nanking to Shanghai today.

The decision has caused much concern to the Government. He was an advocate of continued resistance as the only salvation of the country.

Mr. Wang Ching-Wei, or Wang ChaoMing, leader of the Loft Wing of the Kuoinintang, was born in Kwantung in 18S4, and graduated in the Tokio Law College. He was a member of the Canton Military Government and chief adviser to Generalissimo Sun Vat Sen, 1924-26. He was forced to leave Canton in 1927, having tried, but failed, to set up a Nationalist Government at Canton in opposition to Nanking. He was expelled from the Kuomintang in 1929, but became chairman of the "Peiping Enlarged Conference" of Kuomintang Leftists and anti-Nanking factions. In December, 1931, he was reinstated in the Kuomintang as a member of the Central Executive Committee, and State Councillor of the National Government. Ho hag been president of the Executive Yuan since February, 1932. He is the author of a book, "The World and China After the Paris Conference,'' as well as other essays. Together with Chiang K.iishek and Hu Han-min he completes the Kuomintang's dominant triumvirate.