Mass anti-Chiang and anti-Communist meetings were held yesterday the principal cities in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Reformed Government, including Nan-kang, Soochow and Pootung, it was reported in yesterday's Japanese-language dailies here.
The largest demonstrations, the pers said, were held at Nanking, scat of the new Reformed Govern ment when tens of thousands of Chinese assembled around the Drum Tower to hear a series of speeches in which urgent demands were made for the early organization of 3 Central Chinese administration incorporating the Peiping and Nankin: regimes, A huge mass parade, the papers reported, was held in the afternoon in Nanking while in the evening Thousands carrying lanterns paraded through the streets of the city. Two balloons, it was also reported, wer> alsod, one carrying the banner "Peace in Asia," and the other streamer reading "Anti-Communism." Overhead roared airplanes which dropped leaflets on which were printed similar motto; Chinese in Pootung, the papers reported. assembled in the Tungchong Plaza for an anti-Chiang, anti-Communist meeting. The whole plaza, the papers added, was decorated by me Five-Barred Flag of the new àt Siashih-chen on Friday afternoon Tt was reported that some 5,000 men and women comprising the reprecntative of various anti-Chiang or ganizations, assembled in the Siashih theatre to demand national reconstruction and the overthrow of the Chiang Kai-shek 1egime.e Soochow also was the scene of demonstrations of this character yesterday
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