Office of the Historian

894A.01/3–2649: Telegram

The Consul at Taipei (Edgar) to the Secretary of State

Taipei, March 26, 1949.
[Received March 26—1:46 a. m.]

85. In local speech former Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh stated Taiwan is “restored territory”, not “military occupation area”, [Page 305] and China has absolute sovereignty re foreign and domestic matters. Shimonoseki treaty9 was nullified by Chinese 1943 [1949?] war declaration, Taiwan legally reverted to China then and was physically reacquired from Japanese Army at war’s end. Warned against other future direct or indirect attempts at imperialistic control.

Sent Nanking 78, repeated Department 85.

Edgar
  1. Treaty of peace between China and Japan, signed April 17, 1895, Foreign Relations, 1895, pt. 1, p. 200.↩