Over Territory Nanking Newspaper Comment Peiping, Oct, 17, Nanking, Oct, 1
Significance cannot be over-atta-hed to the present conference now being held in Hangchow between Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Gens. Han Fu-chu, Governor of' Shantung, and Gen, Hsu Yung-chang, Bandit-Sup-Pression Commander of Shansi, dee-Jared, the independent "China Daily News" in a leeding article this morn-4 Both Gen, Han Fuchu and Gen, Yung-chang, the leader said, are extraordinarily Busy men and seldom travel hundreds of miles from their posts. The fact that they are now in the Lakeside City goes to show the present tension "existing in North China.
Japan's policy in North China, according to the journal, is now three-cornered one. Firstly, she instigates Manchoukuo troops. and bandit hordes to invade Suiyuan; secondly, she alms at snatching Hopel and Chther provinces via the route of "economic ce-operation," and thirdly, she attempts to coerce the Chinese authorities of Shantung and Shans into surrender, In one word, the Journal stated, what Japan wants to-day is what she hod wanted last winter, namely the Separation of the five northern pro-Vines from the Central Government and the creation of a puppet regime. The Ave provinces are Hopel, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung.
Praising the two military leaders trip to Hangchow i person to receive Instructions from. Generalissimo Chiang Kel-shek as unmistakable proof of their loyally to the Central Government, the paper also draws the attention of the readers to the visit In Hangchow of Mr. Kuo Ting-yuan, secretary-general of the Hopel-Chahar Political Council, The journal stated that Mr. Kuo's trip to Hangchow to see Gen. Chiang ig on behalf of Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, chairman of the Hopel-Chahar Pollti-
'Concluding, the paper assures the North China leaders that when the Central Government has exhausted all diplomatic means for peacefully settling the Sine-Japanese differences, It will do everything to remove all' ditloulties now confronting the local authorities in the northern pro vinces—Central News.
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