Evening star., 1938-03-28
NEW GOVERNMENT
TUP AT NANK|NG
Liang Hung-Tze at Head of
Regime-'Peace and
Order Urged.
ES the Associated Press

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the Chinese Nationalist regime-te
replace Generalissimo Chang Kai.
sheks administration.
The new government was described
by its sponsors as the reformed gov.
ernment Of the Republic Of China"
Japan last week ordered the crea-
ton of such q government at Nam
king under the umbrella" Of the
similar North China regime recently
established at Peiping.
Inauguration of the Marking soy-
ernment was announced here through
a manifesto signed by LANG Hung .tse,
chairman Of the Executive Yuan.
Equivalent t. Premier.
Liang Hung-tze, whose post Il
equivalent to that Of premier. former
ly was secretary general under Tuan
Chi-jui, provisional chief executive of
China in 1924 and 1925.
He issued q statement saving the
new government would respect AL
just and vested foreign rights" but,
hereafter, would not recognize any
contracts or treaties made by the Ma
tional (Chiang) government at Han
kow or by Chinese provincial govern
ments with foreign powers.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek has
been operating the Nationalist govern
ment at Hankow while carrying on
the fight against the japanese in
vaders. He moved his government tc
Hankow before Markings capture De.
cember II. 1897.
Linchenx Reported Retaken.
dispatches from Hankow said
Chinese troops had recaptured
Llncheng. strategic South Sham
tung Province city on the Tientsin.
Pukow Railway.
'Chinese military leaders said
they were convinced the .Japanese
offensive down the railway against
Suchow had been stopped. Suchow.
south OF Lncheng. is the junction
city where the Tientsin- -Pukow line
crosses the vital east-west Lunehai
Railway.
tThe Chinese said they cut
japanese lines OF retreat in 50
many places around Lincheng that
the invaders were forced to break
ranks and take to the hills, aban-
oonlng communications established
at great cost in the past two weeks
severe fightingD
That the japanese have been suffer.
ing heavy losses in recent battles
many OF which have resulted in set.
backs was evidenced by the arrival In
shanghai Of 40 truck loads of dead
soiolers. Military observers estimated
there were 800 corpses in the conyoy
Chen Chin Tao. Finance Mini.ter
The finance minister OF the nev
Nanking regime is Chen Chin Tao
former chairman of the national Cur.
rency Reform Commission. A grad.
uate OF Columbia and Yale Uniyer.
stiles. he served as vice minister ot
nnance In the Manchu eovernmen,
just before the 1911 revolution.
Later he was minister of finance in
the first republican government. HI
held this ohice again in 1915. unti, h.
ran into legal difficulties over embez.
element charges.
Tcheng Lob (Chen Luz, retired din.
lomatic official who at one time W.,
the Chinese delegate to the League OF
nations, became minister Of FOREIGN
affairs.
Other ministers designated vere
wen Tsung-yao, judicial: Chen Chm
inferior; Wang Tsh-hu, industry. and
Chen Tse-min. education. No ministe,
OF war was named.
| Gen. ShunrOku Hata, commander nj
japanese troops In Central China, and
vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa were
represented at the Inauguration.
Japanese planes flew over Shanghai
dropping handbills announcing the In
auguration. The five-barred nag was
holsted on Japanese controlled build
lngs IN Shanghai.
Rlslng waters Of the Yellow River
were threatening to flood Southern
Hopeh province. where Chinese soldiers
destroyed the dikes.
Urges Peace and Order.
The new government At Marking
called upon the Chinese people to give
up what it called 'unscrupulous anti
japanese. pro-Communist policies" and
restore peace and order in friendly
cooperation with Japan.
Lang Hung-tze pledged his govern
ment to unity with North China when
the Japanese consolidate their gains
through occupation of the Tientsin-
Pukow and Lunghai Railway lines.
Chinese troops. however, have been
persistently delaying achievement of
Japan's military aims by counter
attacking all along the line In Central
China.
Generalissimo Chang Kai.shek few
to Central China to take personal
command Of the operations in that
vast battle zone.