JAP. PEACE TERMS.

Auckland Star, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 8

JAP. PEACE TERMS.

TEXT OF AGREEMENT. Signed By Chinese Puppet Leader. ANTI-COMMUNIST FRONT. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 2.30 p.m.) "* HONGKONG, January 21. Two former associates of the principal Chinese puppet leader, Wang Ching-wei, have revealed the text of an agreement signed on December 30 between Wang and Japan. It provides for Chinese recognition of Mfliichukuo, Sino-Japanese-Manchii-kuoan co-operation, and the establishment of an uiti-Cominunist front. It elso provides for the designation of North China r>n<l Mongolia as a s|>ecinl £O_ne for Japanese defence and economic development, recognition of .Japan's economic predominance in the Lower i^iin«itze Valley, and paramount control of certain island*, including Hainan aril Ainoy. an<l the introduction of a tariffs itn<l Custom* system designed to promote commerce between China, Japan ami Manchukuo. Provisions are made for the stationing of Japanese troops in various areas, in which Japan will supervise communication, the reduction of the Chinese Army and police to a minimum, indemnification of Japanese nationals for their losse-s since the beginning of the war, and a new central Government, eventually to altfiorb the Japanese-dominated Nanking Government in North China. It provides further for a political council with broad autonomone powers to replace the present Peipii.g Government. Unofficial Japanese sources assert that the publication is propaganda, to damage Wang's plane.