East Hebei Autonomous Council

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On November 15, 1935 the Chinese administrator of the eastern district of the demilitarized zone in Hopei, Yin Ju-keng, asked autonomy for North China, as part of a Japanese inspired autonomy movement. On November 24, 1935, Yin Ju-keng, declared the independ­ence of the district for administration under the East Ji (Hopei or Hebei) Anti‑Communist Autonomous Council or East Hebei Autonomous Council with its capital at Tungchow. The Peace Preservation Corps that had been created by the Tangku Truce of 31 May, 1933 to police Hebei was disbanded and reorganized as the East Hopei Army with Japanese mili­tary support.

This government survived until the Tungchow Mutiny in late July 1937. When it was put down the East Hebei Army was disbanded. The region came under the control of the Japanese puppet regime of the Provisional Government of China in Peiking in December 1937.

See also

• Puppet state
• Second Sino-Japanese War