Efforts are being made by the Japanese and pro-Japanese politicians io establish what is termed the "Federal Central Government of China" on September 1 of this year, according to a special report published by the " Pao" yesterday. They are trying to make General Wu Pei-fu, retired northern warlord who lives in Tientsin, president of the new government-i-the-making and "Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the premier.
When Mx.'Wang Ching-wei first arrived here he lived in the Kiangwan residence of General Doihara but later he moved to his own Shanghai residence in Amherst Avenue. In addition to a group of Japanese gendarmes Mr. Wang has more than 100 bodyguards. He would go to Kiang-"wan whenever he wanted to discuss questions with the Japanese, but when questions concerning the Chi-mese needed discussion he would hold a conference in his own residence.
There will not be any "Yuans" under the new government in the making. Mr, Liang Hung-chi, president of the Executive Yuan of the "Reformed Government" at Nanking, may be made president of the parliament, while other Yuan heads and ministers of the Nanking regime will hold ministerial portfolios in the future central administration.
The new government will make peace with Japan by signing a treaty, and by making Chinese fight Chinese, Japan will be able to make China her protectorate, it is stated. The new government will be assisted in the peace movement by the "East Asia Anti-communist League."
In April, representatives of both General Wu and Mr. Wang went to Tokyo to discuss the new central government project, but Mr. Wang has deemed it necessary for him to go there himself to discuss the steps to be taken in connection with the inauguration of the new government. Mr. Wang is said to be still insisting that the Kuomintang and the Chinese national flag should be preserved.
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