Peiping, Jan. 18.
With strong impetus given to the movement for organization of a formal government of China by Japan's statement of policy, well-informed observers here believed that Such a formal regime to replace the present provisional one would be inaugurated in March, Domei learned in usually reliable quarters to-day.
The president of the new government probably will be General Chin Yun-peng, who was Premier in 1919 and 1920, these sources said.
It was likely that the formal go ernment would treat Mr. Hsu Shih-chang, General Tsao Kun and Marshal Wu Pei-fu as "distinguished senior statesmen," it. was thought.
In a press interview Mr. Chu Sun-yuan, Secretary of the administrative Committee of the "Provisional Government" said that ihe government was studying carefully the Japanese announcement on its China policy, and was "arranging effective measures for coping with the new situation created by the statement."
—Domei.
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