CHIANG KAI-SHEK CHINA’S PRESIDENT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18644, 22 December 1928, Page 5

CHIANG KAI-SHEK CHINA’S PRESIDENT.

COUNTRY IS UNIFIED UNDER CENTRAL RULE. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON. October 13. Chiang Kai-shek, the former Chekiang school teacher and now Commander-in-Chief of the victorious Chinese Nationalist armies, was proclaimed the heir to Sun Yat-sen’s heritage to-day, when at an impressive ceremony at Nanking, the new capital, he was installed President of the Nationalist Government of China. The ceremony inaugurates an era with the country unified under the first central Government in seventeen years of stormy Republican history. The ceremony forms part of nation-wide celebrations of China’s National Day (October 10), which is the anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolution at Wuchang in 1911. Shanghai. Nanking, Pekin, and other cities are beflagged in a manner never seen before. Meetings, demonstrations, lantern processions, and troop reviews are taking place, but a jarring note is introduced by martial law as a precaution against threatened Communist disturbances. Simultaneously with Chiang’s installation a new system has been introduced, giving China the basis of Cabinet Government.