The Archive · 1935

Autonomy in North China Commencing

(Cotinued from page 342.)

Peace Preservation Corps and 10,000 militiamen, while. if necessary, thought he could raise, and ' arm with rifles, a further 106,000 men, Tt fg also announced that Mr. Yin Ju-keng has sent a delegate to Peiping from Tungchow to explain the establishment of the new regime to the Japanese Embassy, while two ether members of his Council have gone to Tientsin to see General Sung Cheh-yuan, Garrison Commander of Peiping and Tientsin, and to Tsinan see General Han Fu-chu, Governor of Shuntung, to urge them to join the Mi, Yin stated that, with the auguration of the new government, ho had abolished the office of Administrative Commissioner of the [Demilitarized Zone. The new government, he said, would be responsible henceforth for public security. He promised full protection for forelgners—Reuter.

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