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Peiping, May 4. days, April 25 to 27, were supposed to have been devoted Peiping to specíal celebrations in honour of the installation. mew "Reformed Government" of the Chinese Republic. osed,"
because the public interest displayed on this ocas of the slightest, and it was difficult to find any signs celebrations, unless one went specially out to look for The total lack of interest shown by the general public and horities emphasized the attitude of indifference almost more than if no celebrations had been held at all.
Mes on the very few ornamental arches, erected on one or ti main thoroughfares and covered with red bunting and nanyed paper flowers, the authorities had not taken the pubic to any banners or inscriptions to show what they were meant tò 1 was Very The spontaneous public meeting in front ahd the public was left to make in the Forbidden City"-entrance by ticket only—attended; I have seen much larger crowds on [much lose important, occasions. Nor did the audience show the siasm or interest in the long and dull speeches, full of ittidés and wishful thinking, shouted into the microphone by téfs on the terrace in front of the gate. to note that each, Ko-mim and other members of the North China Political Council, as also these speeches was reference made to Mr. Wang Ching-wei or his government, or if so only in the most As against this, was laid on the fact that of the new dispensation suppression of Communism, while all the speakers emphasized that they had a very difficult road still ahead of them.
"North China" Characters Nor is it without significance that have the characters "North China" in front of their names, instead of that of "Central," as was formerly the case. There is also the strange fact that nothing whatever has been allowed to leak out as to the decisions taken at the recent special conference of the China Affairs Board held here about a fortnight ago. And it is ly rumoured that this silence [is to the fact that already difficulties have arisen in certain questions of finance between the local northern administration and the Central government.
All this demonstrates very clearly that the establishment of the new Central Government at Nanking has in no way affected the aims, the status or, above all, the independence of the north China regime. As we have had repeated occasion to point out, the rulers of the "Dominion" of North China continue calmly and doggedly along the path they have planned for themselves, blandly indifferent to the policy laid down for the rest of China or even, one may say, to the wishes and anxieties of their government in Tokyo.
It was certainly most unfortunate that these celebrations here for the installation of a new stable and peace-bringing government for China should have coincided with the Chinese at-teck on Kaifeng, the capital of Honan, one of the northern provinces, and
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