The Archive · 1936

Five Proposals

The Canton delegates to the CEE. Plenary Session, who are travelling via Hongkong. slated in an interview only five Immediate severance of relations with Japan.

Abrogation of all "humiliating Sino-Japanese agreements.

The use of armed force to prevent Tnerease In the Japanese garrison in North China.

Peiping, July 1.

Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's determination not to use arms in the present controversy with the Southwest, but to secure a settlement of the dispute by pacific means, was explained to-day by his personal envoy to North China, Mr. Liang Shit-tung, in an interview with Domei. "My task in North China," Mr, Liang said, "is to inform Gen erals Sung and Han of Gen. Chiang's peaceful Intentions in the present crisis, and to ask for their tion." He said the Gene: was deeply sympathetic with the spirit of the joint declaration issued by Generals Sung and Han regarding the Southwestern tension—Domei.

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