PEACE WITH CHINA
MANY JAPANESE EFFORTS
Rec. 11 a.m.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27,
The Japanese sent Marshal Chiang Kai-shek 12 peace feelers between 1938 and 1940, mostly through neutral Ambassadors, said Mr. W. H. Donald, when he was interviewed on Luzon by a correspondent of the Associated Press. Mr. Donald added that the chief terms of the Japanese were Chinese recognition of the conquest of Manchuria and a political adjustment in Inner Mongolia to prevent the extension of Russian influence.
Mr. Donald said he was the liaison man for several of these offers. Marshal Chiang's attitude was that there should be no peace while a single Japanese soldier was on Chinese soil.
Mr. Donald declared thai contrary to the general belief the Communists did not engineer the kidnapping of Chiang in 1936, but this was done by General Yang, who desired lo convince Chiang that the Communists were placing troops in the field against Japan* Mr. Donald was present throughout the negotiations for Chiang's release. He said that the Communist leader Chou-Icn-Lai enabled Chiang to depart unharmed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1945, Page 6
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