Chungking, Dec. 29.
Commenting on the recent departure, from Chungking, of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Chairman of the Central Political Council and Deputy General Executive of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Communist Party organ "Hsin Hua Jih Pao" declared yesterday (that the fact that Mr. Wang had left the country "not only has no connection with the Government, tut will not affect, in the least, China's war of resistance."
Continuing, the journal said that, whenever the Chinese abandoned any important city, the Japanese always attempted to induce China to surrender.
"If any Chinese should respond to Prince Konoye's statement of December 22," the Communist organ asserted, "he would be denounced by the entire Chinese nation.
"Only traitors like Ching Kwei (who betrayed the Sung Dynasty to the Tartars) and Wu San-kwei (who betrayed the Ming Dynasty to the Manchus) would make any response to Prince Konoye's statement.
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