EQUALITY DEMAND
THE WANG REGIME INDEMNITY RIDICULED SHANGHAI, August 23. Mr. Wang Ching-wei's "Daily News"! warned Japan that if she wants Nan-, king's co-operation "Japan must accept China's demand for equality." It said: "If Japan wants Chinese co-operation without granting equality, then the Nanking negotiations amount to mere talk." It ridiculed the suggestion—apparently advanced by some of Mr. Wang Ching-wei's followers —that Nanking should agree to pay Japan a large indemnity in return for complete freedom and said the payment of such an indemnity would automatically give Japan "monopolistic control" of China's economic system, thereby being in effect the same as an unequal treaty. A Chungking message states that 5000 persons were rendered homeless and 500 houses were destroyed in a Japanese raid on the south bank of the Yangtze on Friday.
Official relief workers in Chungking said that 38 Japanese raids on the city this year had killed 2051 civilians, wounded 3479, and destroyed 17,000 houses and shacks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 8
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