A "Peace Feeler"
London Opinion Believes Appeal to Kuomingtang is Inspired by Japanese Peiping, June 20.
What is believed to be a "peace feeler" was issued over the weekend here by the Peiping "Provisional Government" in the form of a statement on the horrors of war, It said that "it will take a century for recovery from these horrors."
The statement, which is general believed to have Japanese influence behind it, ended with an appeal to Hankow leaders, including General Chiang Kai-shek, to "acknowledge defeat. These leaders were assured that posterity would forgive them if they did so Mr, Wang Keh-min, President the Executive Yuan of the "Provisional Government" in issuing the statement, referred to the sacrifices made by the Japanese and the suf-forings undergone by the Chinese in "clearing China of undesirable elements,"
"Our view," the statement dedo "is that the war must cease diately."
"The Kuomintang have run amok, Our statement is made as a steppingstone for them to regain their senses so that an end may be put to this unnecessary disaster.""—Reuter
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