CHINA AND JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 119, 13 February 1919, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

I WAK THREATENED IF SECRET TREATIES ARE PUBLISHED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, February 10. The State Department hints that Japan has" threatened war on China if China publishes the secret treaties or fails to carry out her undertakings. China is, relying on the support of the Peace Conference, especially -that of Britain and the United States.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec,.February 12, 7.30 p.m.) London, February 11. Messages from China state that Japan is strongly pressing China to concede the Japanese Far Eastern demands, otherwise she threatens ' financial paralysis and even war. Japanese newspapers resent Chinese representatives being at Paris.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE GERMAN~CONCESSIONS ■ GIVEN TO JAPAN BY SHANTUNG TREATY. /- _ v Washington, February 10. . . A grave view, is taken of the relations between China and Japan. The Japanese Minister in Peking is reported, to have warned China that -unless it confirmed the secret treaties immediately,:' .Japan had an array and transports ready. The Japanese are alleged to have stolen copies of the treaties which the Chinese are bringing to Paris with a view to their submission to the Allies.. Tho Shantung Treaty gives Japan the whole of the German concessions, rights, properties, and railways for a long term of years. The President of China has asked that the league of Nations shall affirm the independence of China, freed from Japanese-control.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

JAPAN'S GROWING_POPULATION AN OUTLET SOUGHT IN CHINA.'' Nsw York, February 10. The Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" interviewed Baron Makino, the acting head of the Japanese peace delegation. He said that Japan, as a progressive nation, naturally turns her attention overseas, because it has a large and growing population within a small territory. "We seem to find the door closed against us everywhere," he said, "but we have imagination enough to take a sympathetic view of the 1 standpoint of our friendly neighbours. With these limitations placed upon us, we. inevitably turn to China as an outlet for the necessary expansion of Japan. Japan's activities in China are bound to be equally beneficial to the Chinese and the Japanese. The -welfare and prosperity of Japan are abound' up with these of China."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.