PEACE TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 10

PEACE TALKS

DISSENTION IN CHINA

EXPULSION OF MR. WANG

KUOMINTANG ACTION

ißy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received January 3, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 2.

The correspondent of "The Times" at Shanghai reports that Mr. Wang Ching-wei, vice-president of the Kuomintang, has been deprived of all his posts for violation of discipline and endangering the State. General Chiang Kai-shek, after receipt of a message from Mr. Wang during the peace negotiations with Japan, summoned the Kuomintang executive and suggested giving Mr. Wang time to repent, but the meeting decided on his life-long expulsion, which is the greatest loss of face which can be inflicted. The executive reaffirmed the principle of "fight to a finish." .

The correspondent of "The Times" at Hong Kong says that Mr. Wang's followers, in his absence in unknown parts, issued his statement to General Chiang recapitulating Japan's peace terms and recommending them as a basis of discussion, but insisting as a preliminary on the total withdrawal of the Japanese forces from China. The Chinese as <a whole deplore Mr. Wang's attitude.

A message from Shanghai states that it is reported that General Chiang has ordered the arrest of the Minister of Communications, Mr. Peng Hsueh-pei, for providing an aeroplane for Mr. Wang to escape.

An official communique orders the arrest of all rebels, to whom extreme punishment is promised, and is interpreted to apply to Mr. Wang.