JAPAN & CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1919, Page 5

JAPAN & CHINA

JAPAN COERCING CHINA. TERMS OF SHANTUNG TREATY. Received Feb. 12, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 11. A grave view is taken of the ChinoJapanese relations. The Japanese Minister at Peking is reported to have warned China that unless she confirms the secret treaties immediately, Japan had an army and transports ready The Japanese, it is alleged, stole the copies of the treaties the Chinese were bringing to Paris with a view to submission to the Allies. The Shantung treaty gives Japan the entire German concessions, rights and properties in the railways for a long term of years. The Chinese president has asked the League of Nations to affirm the independence of China, free from Japanese control.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received Feb. 12, 7.50 p.m. London, Feb. 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 the Chinese representatives being at Paris.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Washington, Feb. 11. The State Department hints that Japan has threatened war against 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. Paris, Feb. 10. Interviewed, Baron Makino, actinghead of the Japanese Peace Delegation, said that Japan was a progressive nation, and naturally turned her attention overseas, because she has a large and growiug population within a small territory. "We seem," lie said, "to find we doof closed against. us everywhere, but we have imagination enough to take a sympathetic view of the standpoint of our friendly neighbors. With this limitation placed upon us, Japan inevitably turns to China as an outlet for the iiecessiiry erpansion. Japan's activities in China are bound to be equally beneficial to the Chinese and Japanese. Japan's welfare and prosperity is bound up with that of China."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.