Flowery Introduction to an Appeal for Ca-operation and Elimination of Party Peking, Jan. 3.
At the Chief Executive's Head~
Tuan delivered a New Year quarters on January 1 Marshal
address to a gathering of Cabinet Ministers and other high Govern-tment officials. The following is an unofficial translation of the Marshal's speech:—
"To-day, being the first day of the first month of the fourteenth year of the Republic of Chunghua, it is indeed fitting that we should meet together. During the tran tional period while the reformation on its way, it is necessary for the intelligent people of the whole coun-{try to work with their whole hearts [and minds for reconstruction. This is comparable to the construction of a farm—no sooner have the harmful insects and weeds been eradicate fed than the good seeds must be put nto the earth thus made ready. Or to the building of a house, when the foundations must be carefully plan-ined before the roof can be put on.
I, the Chief Executive, may not Javoid pursuing my dificult task, despite my years. You, gentle: men, who are the pillars of the country, owing to the services you have rendered to it, must support the State with the greatest sincerity fand prudence, In bringing about unification, party prejudices must bbe eliminated and the task at hand approached in an impartial and cooperative spirit. So will the pros perity of the nation be increas in the days to com The Rehabilitation Conference The Provisional Government, it is! reliably reported, has decided to telegraph to the provinces request ing them to send their representatives to Peking for the Rehabilitation Conference and arrangements are being made with the Ministry unieations to furnish free Under the leadership of Prince Tarhan, a delegation from the eastern part of Mongolia has already arrived at Tientsin to confer with Marshal Chang Tso-li ter's Pucific Service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.