JAPAN AGGRESSIVE.

Otaki Mail, 14 February 1919, Page 4

JAPAN AGGRESSIVE.

j A SERIOUS SITUATION. i Washington, 10. I The State Department hints that I Japan has threatened war oil China if China publishes the secret treaties or fails to Caffy out her undertakings. China is relying on .the support of the Peace Conference, especially that ol' Britain and the. United Stales. A grave view is taken of the relations between - China and Japan. The Japanese Minister in Pekin is reported to have warned Chinn that unless it confirmed the secret treaties immediately, Japan had an army and transports ready. The Japanese arc alleged to have stolen copies of the treaties which the Chinese are bringing to Paris, with a view to their submission to the Allies. The 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 l.eague of Nations shall affirm the indcpendencc of China, fieed from Japanese control. Paris, February 11. It is understood that Japan will notify tho Powers that sho intends to. 'ontinue possession of the Caroline and Marshall Islands. London, February 11. Messages from' China state that Japan is strongly pressing China to concede the Japanese Far Eastern demands. Otherwise >he threatens financial paralysis and oven war. The Japanese newspapers resent the Chinese representatives being at Paris'.