CHINA’S DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1943, Page 2

CHINA’S DAY

OBSERVANCE YESTERDAY IN WELLINGTON THIRTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF REPUBLIC. CHIANG KAI-SHEK ASSUMES PRESIDENCY. (By Tclegraah—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. “Today is not‘only China's National Day, but it is also the day on which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek assumes his office as the President of China at a ceremony in Chungking.” said the Consul-General for China, Mr Wang Feng, addressing several hundred of his countrymen, who with European guests gathered in the rooms of the Chinese Association in Wellington yesterday to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Republic. “We Chinese can expresss our feelings in one word, Chungking, which means double felicitations. “I appeal to all the Chinese in New Zealand to carry out the Three Principle? of the Peoples of Dr. Sun Yatsen and to take part in the New Life Movement and the People's Spiritual Mobilisation initiated bj r General Chiang. By this and this only can the Chinese in New Zealand play their part in the building up of the new China.” y The chair was taken by Mr Harry Wcng, and Madame Wang accompanied her husband. Also on the platform were Messrs. Yue H. Jackson. Sze Tsac-tsung, and Lai Shik-chen. consuls, Messrs. William Kwok and Chin Kwokchun, representing the Chinese National Executive, Messrs. Young Yat-poy and Young Yook-san. representing the Kuomingtang. and Miss chin Son-ha, representing Choose women’s organisations Mr Peter Wu acted as master of ceremonies. Afternoon tea was served following th? speeches. In the evening a Chinese play was presented at the New Times Theatre.