Departure as Head of a "Good Will" Mission Miss Soumi Cheng, former Chief Judge of the Shanghai District Court, left on Saturday on board the M.M.S, General Metzinger for France, as head of a Diplomatic Commission, connected. with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government at Nanking.
Interviewed by a representative of this journal last Friday, Miss Cheng said that she had been appointed a delegate to European ind to England to present facts about the Nationalist government. "Seventeen provinees are controlled by the Kuomintang rty," she declared," and yet. the foreign powers still refer to Peking 4s the seat of government, We will be in Peking in a few months? time!
Miss Cheng made special reference to the ousted Communists of the Kuomintang, and said that she id tell the foreign countries she ited the truth about Nationalist aspirations and programmes, these no longer having any connection with Communism. "Friendly relations with foreign countrion are absolutely essential," Miss Cheng. continued," and the Nationalist Government wishes to change Un-aqua "treaties!" through neyotia-
Hitherto China had made no practice of informing the outside world of her problems as the chief concern was internal, Miss Cheng said. "My mission, if my voyage to Europe and elsewhere can considered such, will be devoted to research upon the subject amicable and permanent. foundations in our relations with foreign countries."
Miss Cheng has spent 14 years in all, at different times, in European countries and in America, She hai been engaged on similar missions before the present one. She will lecture while in France ax she fluent in the French language, the result of several years as a student law at the Sorbonne. Not long 'a0 she was appointed to the pont of president of the Shanghai Provisional Court, but she declined to Six people will comprise the mission, the two ladicn besides Mise Soumi Cheng being Miss K. Wang and Miss Y. Cheng.
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