The Archive · 1939

Government Not Affected

Chungking. Dec. 29.

Commenting on the recent departure, from Chungking, of Br. Wang Ching-wel, Chairman of the Central Political Council and Deputy General Executive of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Communist Party organ "Hsin Hua Jih Pao" declared yester~ day that the fact that Mr. Wang had Tet the country "not only hes no connection with the Government, twill 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.

"It any Chinese should respond to Prince Konoye's statement of Decem~ der 22," the Communist organ as-retted, "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-kwel (who betrayed: the Ming Dynasty to the Manchus) would make any response to Prince Konoye's statement.

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