"Reformed Government's"
Head Pleads for Unity in Asia in Press Statement Tokyo, Nov. 16.
Mr. Liang, Hung-chih, visiting chairman of the Executive Council of the "Reformed Government," this morning signed the Imperial Palace register, following which he paid calls at the residences of Princes of the Blood.
Tu the afternoon, Mr. Liang called on the Premier, Prince Ayamaro Konoye, and key members of the Cabinet. He was the guest at dinner of Prince Konoye.
Appreciation of Japan's goodwill and continued support, coupled with the hope of achieving "a common stand" in East Asia, was voiced by Mr. Liang in a statement to newspaper representatives at the Imperial Hotel here last night.
Mr. Liang arrived by plane from Shanghai yesterday afternoon to confer with Japanese Government, military and civilian leaders.
Declaring that the fall of Canton and Hankow had strengthened the "Reformed Government" with additional China provinces rallying to the five-coloured banner of new China, Mr. Liang's statement said that the Powers were about to revise their attitude towards the new state of affairs in East Asia.
Japan's "Sacrifices"
Tribute was paid to the "great sacrifices" made by Japan in dispatching her military forces against the troops of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, who "failed to understand diplomacy and ignored rightful advices, to cast_ his lot with Communism." Condolences and words of comfort to the Japanese war dead and their families were also contained in the statement "Anti-Communism, friendliness to Japan and economic ce-operation with her form our basic administrative policy," the statement pointed out in reviewing the seven-month period of the "Reformed Government's" existence, during which time "peace and order have been restored and agricultural productivity increased, with higher efficiency noted in the entire administration."
Mr. Liang observed that the new government still had "a long way to go" in order "to dispose of all the defective phases in the social, political, cultural and daily life brought' about by the old regime" and pledged his Government's determination to exert its utmost in the cause of reconstructing a new China to bring about Sino-Japanese friendship and peace in East Asia—Domei.
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