The agreement gave Japan virtual control of Hebei Province under the aegis of the Autonomous Council of East Hebei. [2] Although the agreement was concluded in secret, its details were quickly leaked to the press, causing a rise in indignation and anti-Japaan atmosphere in China. The ceasefire lasted until July 7, 1937, with the beginning of the Second Japanese-Japanese War. The situation became even more complicated by an Allies` agreement at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, which brought Soviet troops to Manchuria to speed up the end of the war against Japan. Although the Chinese were not present in Yalta, they were consulted; they had agreed to let the Soviets enter the war, believing that the Soviet Union would only deal with the nationalist government. After the war, as part of the Yalta Agreement, the Soviet Union dismantled and removed a Soviet sphere of influence in Manchuria and removed more than half of the industrial equipment abandoned by the Japanese. The Soviet presence in northeastern China allowed the Communists to move in long enough to arm themselves with equipment abandoned by the retreating Japanese army. The He Umezu Agreement (梅, 應欽協) (Chinese: 梅協) was a secret agreement between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China. June 1935, two years before the outbreak of general hostilities in the Second Japanese-Japanese War. Two secret clauses excluded one of the anti-Japanese volunteer armies from the peacekeeping force and created all disputes that could not be resolved by the Peace Preservation Corps and were resolved by mutual agreement between the Japanese and Chinese authorities. After losing all commitment and important territory and the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek dealt more with the fight against the Chinese Communist Party than with the Japanese, the Chinese government accepted all claims. In addition the new demilitarized zone lay largely inside the remaining territory of the discredited Mandjigouen warlord Zhang Xueliang. [2] Chiang Kai-shek was not ready to go to war with Japan while his troops were still engaged in a campaign of extermination of the Chinese Communist Party.
The agreement was reached between General Yoshijiré Umezu, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung army for Japan, and He Yingqin for China. [1] On May 22, 1933, representatives of China and Japan met to negotiate an end to the conflict. The Japanese claims were harsh: a demilitarized zone extending about 100 kilometres south of the Great Wall from Beijing to Tianjin was to be created, the Great Wall being itself under Japanese control. No regular Kuomintang military unit should be allowed in the demilitarized zone, although the Japanese have been allowed to use reconnaissance aircraft or ground patrols to maintain the agreement. Public order within the area should be maintained by a demilitarized peacekeeping force lightly armed with the demilitarized zone. . Nevertheless, many conflicts continued between China and Japan, as Chinese nationalism was on the rise and one of the ultimate goals of the three people`s principles was to free China from foreign imperialism.