CHINA AND JAPAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1919, Page 1

CHINA AND JAPAN.

J AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ] ADVICE IGNORED. PEKING, Feb. 13. Although the Cabinet and the Diplomatic Commission advised the President to accede to the Japanese demands that the Chinese Peace delegates act in consonance with those of Japan, he would not yield, but instead cabled to Paris expressing coniideuco in the Chinese delegates.

SKitIOUS ALLEGATIONS. WASHINGTON, Feb 13. .Japan’s attitude towards China at the Peace Conference is causing grave apprehension amongst the representatives of the other associated Poweis. According to official diplomatic information fieri 1 , Japan has virtually threat coed war if China makes public the secret treaties and fails to carry out the agreement to make Japan the successor to Germany, in the property and concessions held by Germany at the outbreak of war. When the Chinese peace delegates arrived at Paris, they reported that the j treaties had been stolen from their baggage while they were passing through Japan, consequently they were unable to carry out their purpose of making them public at the Conference, hut the I delegates verbally reported the subI stance of the stolen documents, wliereI upon Japan demanded that China should j disavow her delegates’ action. I The most important of these treaties, I tinted September last grants Shantung I to Japan, and admits Japan as the sueI cessor to Germany’s rights and coucesI sions in railways and mines. The | Chinese claim that Japan already posI sesses, under treaties, two-liftlm of the 1 iron deposits of the entire Chinese Em- | p»IX*.

japan and china. WASHINGTON. February 13. Japan’s attitude towards China at the Peace Conference is causing grave apprehension amongst the representatives of the other associated Powers. According to official diplomatic information here, Japan has virtually threatened China with war, if China makes public certain secret treaties with Japan or fails to carry out an agreement. to make Japan the successor to Germany in the property and concessions in China held by Germany at the outbreak of the war. Whim the Chiniso Peace Delegates

arrived at Paris they reported that treaties had been stolen from their baggage while passing through Japan. Consequently they were unable to carry out their purpose of making them public at the Peace Conference, hut delegates verbally reported the substance of the stolen documents.

Thereupon Japan demanded that China should disavow her delegates’ action.

The Chinese President has refused to do this.

The most important of theso treaties was dated September last-. It granted Shantung to Japan, and admitted Japan as successor to Germany’s rights and concessions in regard to railways and mines.

China claims that Japan already possesses under treaties, two-fifths of the iron deposits of the entire Chinese Em-

pire. The Chinese delegates also state their Foreign Minister lias been bluntly told that Japan has idle an army of over a million men ready to conduct a long