People are always saying that you. cannot put. the -clock back. Well, the Japanese have certainly accom: plished that feat here in Peiping in the year 1937, We are back ten years, in the good old days of Chung) Hua Min Kuo with our old friend the five-colour flag. (In case readers have forgotten in the interval: rod for Chinese, yellow for Manchus, blue for Mongols, white for Mohammedans and black for tribesmen).
'The long-expected and so often fneralded new government or new! state, whichever you prefer to call'
was inaugurated here yesterday. This newly-created modern state. "called into existence by the spontaneous wishes of the people. of China" and very considerately te-cognized, without even a day's delay, by the Japanese who have the wel-wre of this country so very much at heart, this new government calls. li self the "Provisional Government of the Chinese Republic" (Chung Hua Min "Kuo Lin' Shih "Cheng Fw).
Curiously enough, aid contrary ° 40 the usual practice in similar previous eases, we have not been entertained with' any of these spontaneous demonstrations or processions calling. for the establishment of a new government, although, as we were given to understand, this was so very ardently desired by the people of China, and those in the North quite particularly.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.