CHINA’S DEMANDS
RYUKYU ISLANDS reparations from japan <lO a.m.) NANKING. Oct. 18. China would demand the Ryukyu Islands which included Okinawa, and a big share in reparations from Japan, said the Premier. Mr Chang Chun, reporting to the standing committee of the Peoples’ Political Council. China’s basic, policy toward Japan prior to the peace conferences included insistence that Japan should not be permitted to rearm and that China would not abandon anv claims to reparations in view of her own heavy losses in lives and property. , The Premier reiterated Chinas conviction that the Japanese peace treaty should be drafted by the four big Powers and not bv the 11-nation Eastern Commission. The Associated Press correspondent says the Premier’s bid for the Ryukyus indicated that the peace conference would see a struggle for Jurisdiction ever Okinawa which, various American officials have said, the United States would like to control.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 20 October 1947, Page 5
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