Peking, Sept. 6.
A "moveable government," which may be readily transferred from one "capital" to another in emergencies, has been the aim of the politicians who have set up the new Chinese government in Peking.
One military set-back after another during the period the new government was.
Vineed the politicians that they might have to move almost before they had started, so that arrangements were made from the beginning for government machinery which might swiftly be set up somewhere else, without stopping. the working of the government, Kuomintang politicians, including Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Left Wing.
"arty leader, are almost unanimous in their belief that Peking is not suitable capital for a national Kuomintang government, 'The Kuomintang has been a revolution-party from the beginning of its ory, and Peking possesses. the ism" which party'
denounce so effectually in their speeches, At the same time, militarists have got into the habit of fighting for Peking. It was the centro of government for so many years that it is a sort of symbol of power, like a sceptre, which the conqueror feels he must have as a mark of his success. Even the government at Nanking lapses into this point of lew about Peking.
So Mr. Wang Ching.wei and his associates did not build a government. upon the notion of remaining in Peking. They intended to move. elsewhere as soon as necessity dictated, If the northern coalition, was victorious in the civil war, they planned to move down: to Nanking and reorganize the government. Mr. Wang Ching-wei admitted as much in interviews with foreign correspondents, What he did not admit, however, was that they also planned to move elsewhere very quickly in ease the them coalition was badly beaten, hen the news of reverses in Shantung arrived in Peking, the politicians began to hurry their plans for the new government, They were determined to have some sort of government going before they had to leave Peking.
kuomintang politicians here insist lat China needs a genuine opposition party, and that the Kuomintang group in control at Nani will not tolerate any legitimate position. So these rebellious politicians want a "government" of their own, which will serve as a rallying: point for the "outs," and which may amount to something some day, the politicians feel.
There are several "capital" which the new government may occupy, ities which have served previously the capitals of all. China and have long and honourable histories. There have been at least 18 such capitals in China, and many of them are located in the north. There is jantu, the capital of Shensi pr ince, which a rebel government might occupy indefinitely without much fear of attack, Sianfu was the capital of all China for generations, but to-day it is far removed from a railway, and a small force might hold it indefinitely. There also Loyang-fu, in Honan, another:
lent capital. But Sianfu is more remote, and less subject to attack. Founders of the new government feel they can safely maintain. its machinery somewhere for a long time—United Press.
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