The strangest part about this strange new government of China has still to be mentioned. A Japanese spokesman referred to the inaugura-ton as the celebration of the birth lusty infant. May be, -bat_ that case, the child is a mere he less embryo. The new government thas neither a head, nor any Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Finance or Defence. There is still much talk that the former president, Tsao Kun, and Marshal Wu Pei-fu are to become president and vice-president of the new government. But the hesitations fof these two warriors continued t6 drag on so that the Japanese who were bent on making the proclamation of the new government coincide with the fall of Nanking, the capital of the Kuomintang. could wait 210 longer for them, and s0 proclaimed it without any chief of state.
Whether the two" will join the government later or whether, as is, even whispered, a Manchu. "prince might be made *hoad, still remains be seen. It is a not uniniportant question, seeing that the generat public which is almost totally unacquainted wilh any of. the present Persons, 1s still apt_to believe that tne new government' has been estab-
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