Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
GOVERNING CHINA
JAPAN'S PROBLEM
Nipponese Meeting Failure
in Biggest Task of
Conquest.
BY REGINALD SWEETLAND,
Chicago Daily News Correspondent.

SHANGHAI, March 10.-Though
flushed with her military successes
in China, Japan is now facing her most
colossal task and is meeting with fall
ure. This task is to create a puppet
government or number of puppet
governments in more than 100000
square miles of conquered China
Back of this failure lies conflict OF
views between Japan's two outstand-
ing generals heading the expedition
airy forces in China-Gen. Count Hi
saichi Terauchi, supreme commander
in North China, and Gen. Iwane Mat
sui, who was recently recalled and re-
placed by Gen. Shunroku Hata as
commander in chief of the Yangtze
River area.
Gen. Terauchi wants the new pro-
visional government of China headed
by the old-time politico Wang Ken
ming to be the government of China
This would be reactionary regime OF
spoils and warlords. Gen. Matsui, sage
adviser of the late father of the Chi
nese republic, San Yat-sen, knows that
no such reactionary government can
exist south of the Yellow, River. and
hope to maintain control over vast
Central China as well as South
CHM, with Canton, the hotbed of lib
eralism.
Favors Marking ~ Capital.
Matsui argues that any Chinese gov
eminent that is to control China's
richest provinces. Kiangsu, in which is
Shanghai, Anhwei, and Chekiang, must
have its capital at Marking and must
be based upon the Kuomintang sys-
tenn as propounded by Sun Yae-sen,
but carried out in = vitiated way by
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek by
marriage to a member of the rich
Soong family.
Matsui has selected Tang Shaggy
as the logical head of this government.
Tang so far has refused on the grounds
that man of his international reputa-
ton cannot afford to be known as a
japanese puppet, and that if he is to
head the government he must be urged
by the Chinese people. So far no Chi
nese except second-string fiddlers have
come to offer him the presidency.
While Tang is an old-time Kuomin-
tang (National government) leader he
is the outspoken enemy of Chang Kali
shek-he calls the Marking Kuomin-
tang regime the TOY of Chang Kali
shek and the soong family.
First Premier in 1917.
Tang is IS years old. He was the
first premier Of the Chinese Republic
in 1912. He went to Washington In
1908 to convey the thanks of his gov
eminent for the American remittance
OF the Boxer indemnity. Back in 1873
Tang was student in America, later
attending Columbia University in New
York City.
During the past nine years Tang
has been living in Canton governing
his model district at Chunshan, but
there are many who lay at his door
the plot for an abortive Canton coup
late In January and early in February,
by which the Canton government was
to be ousted and pro-Japanese regime
set up.
Tang is now residing in a comfort
able foreign style home in the Shang-
hal French concession, much visited
by japanese urging him to reconsider
his refusal to form, government. with
its capital at Marking.
While the Japanese are outspokenly
anti-Kuomintang q formula accepta-
BILE to them has been reached. As
understand 1t, it Is as follows:
l. Tang's government, II and when
it is formed, will pronounce the
Kuomintang system no longer anti
Japanese.
2. It will, offer autonomy to North