"These difficulties impede execution of their plan for permanent co-opera tion between Japan, China and Manchoukuo by the grouping of the three countries under Japanese control.
"The question is to link together the regional authorities established with the support of the Japanese and thus create a central Chinese power determined to ce-operate with Japan in a spirit of complete, reciprocal confidence.
"This task was a particularly awkward one to carry out for a state of war still exists in China, the Chiang Kai-shek armies still pursue their hostilities and Chungkings national Government indomitably retains its position."
Commenting on the declaration issued yesterday by Wang. Ching-wei and the reaction it produced in Chungking, "Lo Temps" asserted:
"On the one hand there is a struggle for influence between Nanking and the Chungking Government, while on the other Japan is determined to continue the war as long as her aims are not fully attained and there remain forces hostile to Sino-Japanese cooperation, as Tokyo puts it.
"These are the political facts, emerging from the creation of the Wang Ching-wei Government," "Lo Temps"
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