The Archive · 1940

Protest to Foreign Powers

An identical note was. presented fo foreign embassies and legations in China by the Chinese Foreign Omce today, and was simultaneously delivered to foreign governments through Chinese envoys, denouncing the regime inaugurated today in Nanking under Mr. Wang Ching-wel, The note, signed by the Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr, Wang Chung-hui, describes the Nanking regime as "nothing more than a puppet organization created and controlled by Japanese militarists as an instru ment for usurping China's sovereign rights and for destroying her inde pendence and territorial and administrative integrity.'

The note adds: "It the new government) will also be used by the Japanese to overthrow Inter~ national law and order, to nullify the Nine Power Treaty and to elle minate all commercial, interests of Third Powers in China,"

After condemning those composing the "puppet" government as. having ost "aly sense of decency and pateles tism," the note continues,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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