WANG CHING-WEI

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 8

WANG CHING-WEI

ATTACK ON CHIANG KAI-SHEK

I SAYS PEACE WITH JAPAN IS POSSIBLE. — ACCEPTANCE OF MILITARY ; OCCUPATION. I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON. August 9. The Hong Kong correspondent of "The Times” says the expelled Chinc:,e Premier, Mr. Wang Ching-wei. is a: present in Canton, broadcasting attacks on General Chiang Kai-shek, and claiming that he can arrange an armistice in the Canton area immediately if the Chinese desire peace on the basis of anti-Comintern good neighbourship. He seeks to establish a Kuomintang Government on the basis of a federal system of five autonomous units, closely co-operating with Japan, but since the plan involves continued Japanese military occupation the prospects of winning reputable adherents are poor. Canton reports state that the Japanese are making sorties around Canton, principally for the commandeering of food. They are destroying what they are unable to carry off and machine-gunning farmers, who are hurriedly harvesting the rice crop. REFUSAL TO STRIP MAINTAINED IN ARGUMENT WITH SENTRY. BY BRITISH ARCHITECT IN TIENTSIN. ■ (Received This Dav, 11.50 a.m.) TIENTSIN, August 9. A British architect, Mr. McClure Anderson, refused to strip in front of his wife and another Englishwoman. After an argument a sentry allowed the party to enter the Concession. ANOTHER FALL VALUE OF CHINESE DOLLAR. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day. 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. The Chinese dollar has eased to 3 3-16 d. BELGIAN INJURED ATTACKED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) TIENTSIN, August 9. Japanese soldiers bent, kicked and injured M. Denis Conigs, a Belgian, at the Peitaiho summer resort. A Japanese pushed M. Conings from behind. He protested, whereupon Japanese soldiers set on him.