NEW REGIME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23619, 1 April 1940, Page 9

NEW REGIME

CHINESE AROUSED PUPPIiT GOVERNMENT ■ * ■ • ■i ! >-; ''iJy ■ INSTALLATION OF WANG AMERICA'S ATTITUDE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 31, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 3d Amid elaborate ceremonies to-day Wang Ching-wei was installed as head of the so-ca]|ed National Government of China, says a message from Nanking. - The president , t 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 his entourage were buraed in the middle of the city. " - .. Shanghai was converted into an armed caiinp as a, precaution against outbreaks ,by Nationalists. Terrorism is threatened as a protest against Wang's inauguration. Ceremony Described as irarcical The inauguration of "Wang Chingwei's Government was the dreariest and most inefficiently managed farce Nanking lias witnessed for many centuries, says the Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times. Wang and his 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 vas proclaimed lender of the National Government under the watchful eyes of numerous uniformed Japanese officers. : The Chungking Foreign Office in a Note to the Embassies, says: "Wang's Government consists of a gang of slaves of utter moral depravity." The Note disclaimed in perpetuity all Wang's undertakings and gave warning that recognition would be considered a most unfriendly act. It added the Government's determination to expel th<!i invaders. A mesnage from Tokio says a source close to; the Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, siiid: "Japan hope;, the United States will accept the new National Government in a spirit of goodwills" Support for Chiang Kai-shek Officials anticipate that the policy of non-recognition of territory gained forcibly; as applied .to Manchukup. Abyssinia, Albania and German-occu-pied countries, will not be altered in respect of Wang, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. Commenting that the attitude of the United States toward the use of,, armed force a- 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 'reasoii: to believe it • Was supported by : the great majority of the 1 Chinese. . Referring to Japanese statements to the effect that Japan intends to respect the political independence of China. Mr. Bull said: "To this Government the circumstances attending the setting up of I the new regime a,t Nanking d< not sl?em consistent with such an intention." Mr. ; Key Pittman applauded Mr Hull's statement. He said the Nankin) Government was a puppet similar to (Manchukuo. That type of subterfuge had outrun its course. Waiig made a bid for international recognition by declaring his respect for the rights and interests of friendly nations and his intention of reopening China to peaceful economic activity on the pjut of Powers who conform to the new situation in East Asia. . ; His aims, added Wang, included international co-operation agaiiist Communism and the promotion of foreign friendship. TOOLS OF JAPAN " DEPRAVED TRAITORS " STRONG DENUNCIATION I CHIANG'S GOVERNMENT (Received March 81, 5.5 p.m.) j; ! . LONDON. March 30 Tl:te 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 NinePower Treaty and eliminate third PoWers," says the statement. "Those who compose it arc depraved traitors who are endangering the safety of their own country. "Any nation which recognises the puppet Government will infringe international law."