793.94/6344: Telegram
The Consul General at Tientsin (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 31—10 a.m.]
General Nakamura, Commander of the Japanese garrison at Tientsin, formally announced this afternoon that Major General Okamura, Vice Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, signed an agreement at 11 this morning at the Japanese barracks at Tangku with Lieutenant General Hsiung Pin of the Chinese Army terminating the present hostilities. The terms of the agreement are substantially as follows:59 [Page 350]
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- The Chinese troops shall immediately all withdraw to districts south and west of a line connecting Yenching, Changping, Kaoliying, Shunyi, Tungchow, Siangho, Paoti, Lintingkow, Ningho and Lutai. They shall not make advance over this line nor repeat any provocations.
- 2.
- The Japanese troops in order to insure the enforcement of number 1 will visit these places occasionally by airplane or otherwise and Chinese authorities shall afford them protection and facilities for inspection.
- 3.
- The Japanese troops when fully satisfied that the Chinese have carried out number 1 term will not continue pursuit across the above line but will voluntarily withdraw to the Great Wall.
- 4.
- The maintenance of peace and order north and east of the line specified in number 1 term and south of the Great Wall shall be carried out by the Chinese police authorities.
- 5.
- This agreement shall come into force immediately.
It appears that the above agreement has [had?] its inception on May 25th when General Hsu Yen-mou, a staff officer of Ho Ying-chin, made certain proposals at Miyun for a truce of the Japanese Kwantung Army authorities.
The special train carrying the delegates back to Tientsin is expected at Tientsin between 6 and 7 o’clock this evening.
- For text as reprinted from League of Nations, Official Journal, Special Supp. No. 113, p. 9, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 120.↩