JAPAN AND CHINA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 135, 3 March 1919, Page 5

JAPAN AND CHINA

COMPLIANCE WITH TREATY DEMANDED OR FORCE WILL BE RESORTED TO By Telegraph—Press A6sociation-Copyrieht (Rec. March 1, 4.5 p.m.) New York, February 27. A cable message received from Shanghai states that the Japanese Government has notified the Chinese Government that unless China complies with the provisions of the Japanese-Chinese . treaty regarding the Japanese acquisition _ of Germany's commercial rights in China the Japanese Government will bo obliged to deal with the matter forcibly—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn, THE SECRBTBOCUMENTS JAPANESE PROTEST AGAINST THE THREAT OF PUBLICATION. (Rec. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 28. The New York "Times" correspondent says the statement is given out on unimpeachable Japanese authority that the Chinese peace delegates are falsely accusing Japan of injustices to China. By threatening to publish, secret documents between China and Japan with the purpose of obtaining their cancellation by the Peace Conference China is ignoring the inviolability of international contracts. It was Germany's violation' of the international treaty guaranteeing .Belgium's neutrality which drove Britain into the war. If the treaty of 1915 was declared void it would not change Japan's position towards China. Japan by right of conquest was entitled to remain at Shantung during the period for whioh Kiaochau was leased to Germany unless Japan were willing to renounce her belligerent rights— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPAN'S POLICnOWARDS CHINA "FAIR TREATMENT AND COOPERATION." ' , (Ree. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 28. Dispatches from Marseilles say that Marquis Saionji, the head of the Japanese peace delegation and the permanent VicePresident of the Peace Conference, in an interview, said: "Japan desires to 6ee the League of Nations organised for the purpose of assuring a higher form of. civilisation in practice as well as _in theory. Japan's policy towards China must'be fair treatment and co-operation in the highest meaning of the term. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn; " TREATY CONCLODEDDNDER DURESS (Rec. March 2, 11.5 p.m.) New York, March 1. A Japanese authority in a statement oil the Chinese situation 6ays: "China contends that the 1916 treaty was concluded under duress. The fact is that most of China's foreign treaties were thus concluded. The Chinese delegates were acting contrary to the interests of the world peace and their own country." -AUS.-N.Z. Cable Assn.