THE “CHINA INCIDENT”
ADVENTURE A FIASCO (Rec. 11 p.m.) TOKIO. Dec. 21. Prince Konoye’s memoirs reveal that the Japanese Cabinet, with full army and navy support, 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. Cabinet’s decision to withdraw from China was conditional upon both sides refraining from making public the peace conditions lest Japan should lose too much face. Japan agreed to the following terms: —First, Chinese independence; secondly, withdrawal of Japanese forces; thirdly, non-annexation of Chinese territory; fourthly, no reparations; fifthly, restoration of the opendoor policy; sixthly, amalgamation of Chiang Kai-shek’s and Wang Chingwei’s Government; seventhly, Japanese' mass migration to China; eighthly, recognition of Manchuria.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 7
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