THREE NATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 7

THREE NATIONS

Ultimatum To Japan { SURRENDER OR BE DESTROYED LONDON, July 28. Britain, the United States, and China have issued a joint J;:. ultimatum to Japan to get out of the war or be completely destroyed. > A message from Berlin says that the proclamation which was addressed to the Japanese people was issued in the name of the . President of the United States, Mr. Churchill as Prime Minister of .- Britain, and President Chiang Kai-shek. The proclamation said that the three leaders had agreed that Japan . should have a chance to end the war-at the moment when the forces of the United States, the British Empire, and China were poised to - strike the final blow at her, and reminded the Japanese people of the futile and senseless resistance of the Germans. The Japanese Government is called upon to surrender unconditionally, and the following demands are made: That the Japanese forces be completely disarmed; that Japanese sovereignty be limited to the home islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, and a few minor islands; and that certain points in Japanese territory shall be occupied until a new order of peace, security, and justice - is set up in Japan. In addition all Japanese war criminals are to be punished, there is to be an end to the domination of Japan by what the proclamation calls "her self-willed, militaristic advisers," and the Japanese must help to revive democratic tendencies in Japan. The correspondent says that President Chiang'Kai-shek's concurrence with the text of the proclamation was sent by radio from Chungking. The proclamation is being broadcast to the world and every method is bein^ used to bring it to the knowledge of the Japanese people.