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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1937.

CHINESE

MEMORANDUM

TO TREATY POWERS Presented Simultaneously In Seven Capitals

JAPAN'S SENSATIONAL

PEACE TERMS: VIRTUAL

CONTROL OF NORTH CHINA

Peiping, To-day.

A new version of the Japanese demands in the North China crisis is current in Chinese circles here, including:

Fusion of the northern part of Hopei and the whole of Chahar with East Hopei as an indepen- dent State, with Tientsin as capital,

Tangku, Tientsin's port at the mouth of the Pei Ho, will be made a naval base for the Japanese Navy,

The Peiping area will be demilitarised,

The Japanese to garrison Peiping in order to protect Japanese subjects and interests, and

The new State will defray the cost of the pre- sent Japanese mobilisation.

In view of the negotiations at ments in China. Tientsin confirmation cannot be obtained but the demands follow closely the lines of the abortive plan of Major-General Doihara, the Japanese Lawrence,' in 1935.

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League Covenant.

The crisis, if permitted to take Jits own course, will not only imme- diately disturb the peace of East Asia but may consequences to the rest of the world.

Canton University

Chancellors

entail unforeseen Bound For Kuling

Dr. Wang is said to have dis- cussed with Mr. Hull China's

Dr. W. K. Chung and Messrs. Luk and plea to the United States and While China is obliged to employ Chi-chung, Chang Hiang-pu other Treaty signatories to take all means to defend her territory Chen Ping-chun, respectively chan- action in the Far Eastern crisis. and national honour to the end of cellors of the Lingnan, Ku Sheng- He presented Mr. Hull with a her existence, she is ready to kan, Kuomin and Canton Universi-

setting forth the settle

Japan by ties in Canton, left Hong Kong for Chinese views on the situation. any pacific means known to inter- Shanghai en route to Kuling in the

national law and treaties-Reuter. President Grant yesterday.

In Shanghai last night, the China 'memorandum National Aviation Corporation deni- ed that the service to Peiping has been suspended, as reported earlier.

BERLIN MEMORANDUM

Meanwhile in Berlin yesterday, the Councellor of the Chinese Em- bassy presented a Chinese Govern- ment memorandum to the German Foreign Office.

- It is believed the memorandum again stresses Chinese intention to offer resistance to Japan.

JAPAN'S REPLY

The charge d'affaires at the Japanese Embassy also visited Mr. Cordell Hull yesterday, after which Mr. Suma told newspaper- men that he had explained to the American Secretary of State "my Government's firmness of inten-. tions in North China.”

Asked whether he planned to re- assure Mr. Hull that the Japanese It is understood the Chinese Am-Government did not plan to acquire bassador voiced the same view when new territory in China, Mr. Suma he called on the Reich Foreign said: "That goes without saying." Minister, Baron von Neurath, ... on Wednesday.

PEACE MAINTENANCE

LONDON ALSO

Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Ambas- sador in London, visited the For- Baron von Neurath is understood eign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, to have intimated that Germany was at the Foreign Office yesterday interested in the maintenance of afternoon to discuss the Far East- peace.

ern situation.

This drew the reply from the Am- Mr. Quo presented a memoran- bassador that China, too, was in- dum from the Chinese Government terested in the maintenance of peace setting forth the “circumstances of but that matters did not depend on the present threat from Japan in her and, if Japanese military action North China” "continued in North China, China would offer the utmost resistance.

similar communication has been made to all other signa- tories of the Nine-Power Treaty, U. S. CONFERENCE

apart from Japan, but including

· Russia and Germany, message from Washington re- ports that the Chinese Ambassador,

NINE-POWER TREATY Dr. C. 1. Wang, conferred with the United States Secretary of State, The memorandum declares that Mr. Cordell Hull, on the Far Eastern the sudden attack on Loukouchiao situation for an exchange of informa- and the Japanese invasion

of tion, as President Roosevelt and North China are clear violation of State Department officials have main- China's sovereignty and contrary to tained close surveillance of develop the Nine-Power Treaty and the |

differences with

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