CHINA’S LEADERS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1932, Page 1

CHINA’S LEADERS

LOATH TO RETURN TO OFFICE. SHANGHAI, January 15. From a welter of conflicting reports it is dear that tlie Nanking politicians arc unable to form a Government owing to tlie reluctance of the various leaders to visit. Nanking. C’hiang Kai-Shek, the former leader of the Nanking Government, persists in remaining at Fatighua, where he was horn, stubbornly refusing to return to Nanking. Wang ( hing-Wei, formerly chairman of the Kumninlang central executive, and chief adviser to Sun Wit-sen. and who tried in October. 1927. to set up a Nationalist Government independent of Nanking, has retired to hospital, though 1 here is some doubt, as to whet her he is net nally iIL Hu Haii-min, another who formerly was one of Sun Aat-scn s nontenants, and :u that canacitv visited Moscow, ...til! in Hongkong. whither emissaries have been sent in an effort to persuade him to return. In the meantime. Eugene Chen, the Soviet adviser to the Nationalist Government. is carrying on the Nanking Foreign Oflice, and Sun i'o, sell ill Ann Yat-sen. is still seeking imams to form a new Government. And posing consider;'lil.v in the load limelight, with his immense stature and coolie clothes, is Feng Yn-hsinng, the “Christian General.'’ . Charged with having failed to defend Manchuria against the Japanese "invasion." Cluing HsmT-liaiig. who is known as “the young Marshal.” is to be impoadie ( | by (be Nanking Government. T r .> ;dll e'-'i b" charged with having evacuated Chinchow in defiance of . d r - It is reported that Chang has bought an aeroplane and intends to make a pint of the world.