ARTICLE 56. Offenses committed during an election are governed by the criminal code. CHAPTER VIII. SUPPLEMENT ARTICLE 57. When it is impossible to elect in Special Elections as prescribed in Chapter IV, the National Government may appoint Representatives. ARTICLE 58. The Chief Election Office for the Election of Representatives to the National Congress is the sole organ empowered to interpret the meaning of this set of laws. ARTICLE 59. The detailed procedure for enforcing these laws will be fixed by order. ARTICLE 60. The date of enforcing these laws will be fixed by order. [The attached lists are omitted.] _D._ THE PROGRAM OF RESISTANCE AND RECONSTRUCTION[1] [Footnote 1: Official English text from Ch'u Chia-hua (Party-Minister of Organization of the Kuomintang), "Consolidation of Democracy in China," in Council of International Affairs, _The Chinese Yearbook 1938-39_, [Hong Kong], 1939, p. 337-8.] This quasi-constitutional proclamation of war policy for the nation was adopted by the Kuomintang Party Congress, Emergency Session, at Hankow, March 29, 1938. A. GENERAL PRINCIPLES: 1. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary principles and his other teachings are hereby declared to be the supreme authority, regulating all war-time activities and the work of national reconstruction. 2. All war-time powers and forces are hereby placed under the control of the Kuomintang and of General Chiang K'ai-shek. B. DIPLOMACY: 3. China is prepared to ally herself with all states and nations that sympathize with her cause, and to wage a common struggle for peace and justice. 4. China is prepared to safeguard and strengthen the machinery of peace as well as all treaties and conventions that have the maintenance of peace as their ultimate object. 5. China is prepared to ally herself with all forces that are opposed to Japanese imperialism in order to check Japanese aggression and to safeguard peace in the Far East. 6. China is prepared to improve still further the existing friendly relations with other Powers in order to gain more sympathy for the cause. 7. All bogus political organizations which Japan has created in consequence of her military occupation of Chinese territory, and all their actions, are hereby repudiated and declared null and void. C. MILITARY AFFAIRS: 8. The army shall receive more political training, so that both officers and men may appreciate the importance of war-time national reconstruction and be ready to lay down their lives for the nation. 9. All able-bodied men shall be trained; the people shall have their military strength increased; the troops at the various fronts shall be supplied with new recruits. Overseas Chinese who have returned home to offer their services at the front shall be given a proper course of training to fit them for their work.