Nanking, May 8.
In order_to cement the bond between the South-western and Central authorities, it is reported that Generals, Chen Chi-tang and Li Tsung-jen, Commanders of the Kuangtung and Kiwangsl provincial forces, have submitted 'a joint' memorandum to Mr. Wang Ching-wel, President of the Executive Yuen and to General [Chiang Kal-shek, President of the Military Affairs Commission, recommending that the Kuangtung National Defence Committee be reorganized and expanded into a Liang-Kwang (Kuangtung-Kwangsi) National Defence Advisory Council, with Generals Pel Chung-hsi and Miao Pel-nan as Chairman and Vice-Chairman.
'A. National Defence Conference should be convened immediately by the Central' authorities at the capital, they say. This conference will answer 2 double purpose. In the first place, the country's military leaders' may. gather together for an exchange of jews: and secondly, it will serve to demonstrate the unity of the country.
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