The Archive · 1938

New Positions in Puppet Regime Established in Nanking

GOVT. ANNOUNCED Dr. H. H, Kung is President Executive Yuan

Hankow, Jan. 2.

Keorganization of the Chinese Gov~ ernment for the express purpose of Inereassing the efficiency of China's Janti-Japanese.war machinery has! [been decided by the National Defence Council, the highest governing body the country in the present "emergency period," Reuter learns to-day.

Dr. H. H, Kung, Minister of Finance, place of General Chtang Kel-shek, who will thus be enabled to devote his entire attention to military affairs.

Dr, Wang Chung-hal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been made vice-[President of the Executive Yuan.

Mr, Chen Li-fu, writer, lecturer and author, who has played a prominent part Io many popular movements, has been appointed Minister of Education succession to Mr. Wang Shih-

The Ministry of Railways, of which Mr, Chang Chia-ngan is Minister, has bbecn absorbed into the Ministry of Communications, with Mr. Chang 2s Minister, General Yui Fel-peng, the outgoing Minister of Communications, has been appointed chief of the military transportation department of the General-Issimo's headquarters,

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