Once again reports are being put about that the delegates of the various regional governments are to hold a final joint meeting at either Tsingtao or Shanghai, in order to settle "outstanding details" regarding their position towards the new central government. And the Japanese Press has Been proclaiming, for the n-th time, that the inauguration of the Wang Ching-wei government is really and truly going to take place very shortly, and therewith the establishment of the "New Order in East Asia" and the so-fervently desired peace.
It is, therefore, very interesting to note that, just at this moment, in circles close to the local provisional government, rumours are circulating in Peiping to the effect that certain members of the local government object so strongly to the idea of a control government that they have threatened to resign. There is probably not the slightest truth in these Tumours. Members of the so-called Puppet governments do not resign;
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