Nanking, Apr. 27.
General Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese Ambassador-designate to' the Reorganized National Government," 2: members of his staff, and nine people's envoys were guests of honour here yesterday evening at a banquet tendered them by Mr. Wang Ching: Wel, acting president of the "National Government."
Mr. Wang in greeting his guests expressed thanks for Japanese assist ance to the new Government and Pledged his efforts to closer Sino-Japanese Ca-operation, Among those present at the dinner were the hends of the various Yuans and other leading officials of the organized government." Count Yoringa Matsudaira, President of the House of Peers, and Mr, Shojt Koyama, Speaker of the House of Representatives, were among the Japanese guests—Domel, Lena-distance telephone communications between Kunming and Chungking, Kunming and Kweilin. and Kunming and. Liuchow were formally inaugurated on April 20, says a report from Kunming to the "Sin Wan Pao,
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