Ciano, to-day sent the following telegram to Chang Hsueh-liang:
"You are my friend. If you join the Communists you will" be "my enemy. China cannot exist without Gen, Chiang Kai-shek."
Count Ciano became well acquainted with Chang while he was Italian Consul-General ili Shanghai, During his European tour in 1933 Chang Hsueh-liang spent considerable time in Rome where he was received by Signor Mussolini and also renewed his acquaintance with Count Clano-'Trans-Qcean Kuo Min, Tur Ministry of Finance has replied to the merchants in Swatow, rejecting their petition to levy a special t2x on imported rice.
Genoa, Dec. 22.
'Mr, Wang Ching-wel, former Prosldent of the Executive Yuan, who has been recuperating in Europe from the effects of wounds received during the attempt on his life in Nanking ast year, loft Genoa for Shanghai to-day in' the German liner Potsdam, which is due to arrive there.on January 14, In a statement made before his departure Mr, Wang said that during the past few years China had ben struggling, in the face of internal diftculties and external aggression, to put her house in order. and effect Unity of purpose In order to prepare for the ultimate sacrifice in defence of national independence, The success which had been achieved In defending" Suiyuan against invasion from without was a sign of the progress which had been made towards this end.
The present moment was one when the people of China "should firmly unite in an effort, to attain the common. purpose, but the "sudden sout-break of rebellion at Sianfu. was sub-ver sive of law and order and destructive of the discipline of the army. ogress which had been gradually attained after so much effort and threw the nation more deeply into the. maelstrom' of internal trouble and external menace.
"To advocate resistance to aggression from without by such methods ts Uke heading one's cart north: when declared—Reuter, 2 tone wishes to' go south, Mr. Wang
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