Evening star., 1939-01-10
Chungking Bombed
By 100 Warp|anes
Of japanese
Chinese-Monned Regime
Calls on Chinese People
To Yield to Invaders
By the Associated Press.

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By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, JAN l0.-Japan's air.
force today subjected Chungking
China's provisional capital, to bonn.
bardment by nearly 100 war planes
while the Japanese-dominated, Chi
nese-manned regime called on the
Chinese people to yield to Japan.
A Japanese communique said Chi
nese military establishments at
Chungking, nearly l 400 miles up the
Yangtze River, were heavily dam
aged as the war planes attacked in
relays, meeting no Chinese resist
ance. Chinese planes were said to
have fled at the approach of the
Japanese air armada. It was Chung
kings fifth air attack
Meanwhile the first public peace
move by one of the Japanese
chosen regimes in occupied territory
appeared in the form of statement
by Wen Tsung-Yao, president of
the Legislative Council of the re
formed government Of China" at
Marking.
The japanese already have indi-
Gated that they hope to make such
regimes the instruments of a peace
which nominally would be between
Japan and China, even though the
Chinese continued their resistance,
now in the 10Th month.
Appeals for Peace.
Wen's statement appealed to the
people living in nine provinces
which he listed as still under con-
troll of the Chinese government
headed by GeneraIssimo Chang
kai-shek to accept peace with
Japan on the basis of the terms
laid down December % by Prince
Fumimaro Konoye, then Japan's
Premier.
(Konoye proposed peace on the
basis Of continued japanese oc-
cupation of strategic points in
China "as an anti Communist
measure; China's adherence to
the Japanese Italian German
anti-Communist pact; establish
ment of Inner Mongolia as a
special anti Communist terri
tory; China's acceptance of
place in a Japan -Manchukuo-
China economic, political and
cultural bloc)
Wen's appeal conceded with bitter
lighting in the Hangchow sector,
southwest of Shanghai, where the
Chinese were attacking; in South
western Shansi Province and west
OF Hankow In the Yangtze River
Valley.
Fate Depends on Events.
The Nanking appeal, circulated by
Domei, the Japanese news agency,
declared the fate of the scores of
millions inhabiting the provinces
wholly or partially under japanese
occupation, as we'll as those still
adhering to the Chang Kai-shek
regime at Chungking, depended
upon events of the near future.
Wen said that although his Nam
king regime and the provisional
government of China" at Peiping
were convinced that they were con-
tributing to China's salvation.
nevertheless the nation brands
them as puppets" and should they
sign peace pact with Japan "they
would be unable to secure the ma
tion's understanding.
However, he continued, should the
nine provinces-Szechwan, Kwangsi,
Yunnan, Kweichow, Human, Fukien.
Sensi, Kansu and Sinkiang-turn
from anti-Japanism to a policy of
amity toward Japan, peace could be
achieved.
(Wen Is the father of Maria
Wendt. arrested on the Pacific
Coast Of the United States in 1896
as member of an international
narcotics ring. She was taken to
the Federal Prison at Anderson,
w. Va, in May, 1887, to begin
serving a l0-year term.)
Wen declared China's failure to
recognize Manchukuo-created bv
the japanese Army out of China S
Manchurlan provinces-was one of
tne major causes of strife and he
favored such recognition.
Chinese continued their renewed
actlVlty IN the HangchoW sector. 100
miles southwest of Shanghai, with
an attack on the japanese garrison
at Yuhang, IS miles west of Hang
chow.
Yuhang is the extreme westward
outpost of the Japanese in Chekiano
province. The Chinese said their
forces withdrew after destroying de-
tense works and tearing up sections
OF the highway between Hangchow
and Yuhang.