AMERICAN TERMS ACCEPTED
JAPANESE WITHDRAWAL FROM CHINA MEMOIRS OF PRINCE KONOYE Tokio. Dec. 21. The memoirs of Prince Konoye, former Prime Minister of Japan who committed suicide last week, which are now in the hands of the chief war crimes prosecutor; Judge Joseph B. Keenan, reveal that the Japanese Cabinet, with the full support of the Army and Navy, agreed in May, 1941, to accede to the American demands for withdrawal from China. The memoirs contain ample evidence of Japan’s conviction that the China adventure was a complete fiasco, disastrously weakening the Empire. The Cabinet’s decision to withdraw from China was conditional upon both sides refraining from making public the peace conditions lest Japan lose too much face. Japan agreed to the following terms: (2) withdrawal, of the Japanese forces; (3) non-annexatiop of Chinese territory: (4) no reparations; (5) restoration of the open-door policy: (G) amalgamation of Chiang’s and Wang Ching-wei s Governments: (7) Japanese mass migration to China; tS) recognition of Manchuria.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 13945, 24 December 1945, Page 3
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