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China Calls
Decision of
Big 3 4 Unfair'
Seeret Pact of France and
England to Back Japan's
Claims to Shantung Rights
Exposed by Paris Envoys
Statement Is Issued
Delegates Say They Hoped
To Be Treated in Accord
With Wilson's Points
PARIS, May 2 (By The Associated
Press).?-In declaring its disappoint?
ment with the decision of the Council
of Three regarding Kiao-chau, the
Chinese delegation to the peace con?
ference, in its statement to-day, said
that the decision gives Japan practical
control of Northern China.
The statement of the delegation dis?
closes that early in 1017 Great Britain
and Frame agreed to support the
Japanese claim to German rights in
Shantung at the peace conference. It
says that China knew nothing of the
agreements and was nol told of them
even when she joined the war in
August, L917.
It is declared that China's declaration
of war abrogated all treaties and
agreements with Germany and that
German rights automatically reverted
to China.
Say Pledge Is Broken
The Chinese delegation asserts that
the reported action of trie Council of
Throe in transferring the German
rights to Japan ?s not in keeping with
the principles of peace laid down by
the Allied and associated powers. The
statement follows :
"The Chinese delegation has been
informed orally.on behalf of the Coun?
cil of Three of the outline of the set?
tlement proposed regarding the Shan?
tung question. Under this settlement
all rights to Kiao-chau formerly be?
longing to Germany are transferred
to Japan. While Japan voluntarily
engages to hand back Shantung pep-'
instila in full sovereignty to China,
she is allowed to retain the economic
privileges formerly enjoyed by Ger?
many.
"These privileges, the delegation is j
informell, refer to the Tsing-tao-Chin?n
railway, 280 miles long, the mines con- I
nected with it and the two railways |
to be built connecting Shantung with
the two trunk lines from Peking to
the Yangtso Valley, In addition, she !
obtains the right to establish a settle- '
ment at Tsing-tao, and although the '
Japanese military forces, it is under
stood, will be withdrawn from Shan
tung at the earliest possible moment, |
the employment of special railway
police is permitted.
"Such being the otttlino of the pro?
posed settlement, the Chinese delega?
tion cannot but view it with disap- '
pointment and dissatisfaction.
German Bights Reviewed
"These Cern?an rights in Shantung
originated in an act of wanton aggres?
sion in 1807 characteristic of Prussian '
militarism. To transfer these rights to |
Japan, as the Council of Three proposes ?
towdo"', is therefore to confirm an act of
gression which has been resented by
the Chinese people ever since its per
pet ration.
"Such a virtual substitution of Japan
for Germany in Shantung is serious
enough in il lelf, but it becomes grave
when thi position of Japan in Southern
Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia is
read in connection with it. Firmly in?
trenched on both sides of the Gulf of
Pe-chili, the water outlet of Peking,
with a hold on the three trunk lines
from Peking, and connecting it with the
rest of China, the capital becomes but
an enclave in the midst of Japanese
influence.
"Moreover, owing to China's declara?
tion of wai ? the Central Powers
on Augu i ' ' ,, and the abrogation
of all ' ? oments between
China a It! e pow irs, 1 he ( lerman
rig! " rev >rted to ('? ?na.
Th fiicial ly notified
to and ? cognizance of by the Al?
lied and I i ents. It, is
therefore significant that the council
in anee. . ? settlement of the
Klao-chau-Shantung question referred
to the rights to be transferred to Japan
as 'the rights formerly belonging to
Germany.'
Say Ally Ih Punished
"It appears clear, then, that the coun?
cil has been bestowing on Japan the
rights, not of Germany, but of China;
not of an enemy, but of an ally. The
more powerful ally has reaped a benefit
at the expense, not of the common
enemy, bu1 of the weaker ally. Besides,
Shantung is China's holy land, packed'
with memoi ? of Confucius and Men
c us, and hallowed as the cradle of her
( vilisai ion.
"If it ! the il tei tion of the council
to restore it to China, it is difficult to.
see on '? I ? deration of principle
or of expediency can be justified the
trail anc ? to an alien
powtr, which then 'voluntarily engages' t
to hand it back to 1 ner.
'?Japan based or the Ger?
man rights in Shantung also on the
. treaty and n ? and the notes
of 191S with China. It is to be noted, ;
however, that the documents of 1915
were agreed to by China under coercion
of an ultimatum threatening war m
case of non-compliance with the twenty
? one demands.
Withdrew Notes of 191S
"The notes of 1918 were made by
China ?* 'Japan
: to with-li oops, whose presence
in the interior of Shantung, as we!! us
the establishment o1* Japanese civil ad- ;
X ministration bureaus in the dii
arid ?roused popula ition
that the Chinese government felt con?
strained to angi ment."
Sem t Treaty Exposed
"The Chinese delegation understands
at the council was prompted by the
fact that. Gr"at Britain and France had
undertaken in February and March,
1017, to support at the peace confer?
ence the transferring to Japan of the ?
German ri^ht* in Shantung. To none
of these secret agreements was China
a party nor ivas she informed of their
contents when Invited to join the war
against the Central Empires. The fort?
unas O? China appear thux to have
been made objects Of negotiation and
compensation after she already had
definitely allied herself with the Allied
Power?.
"Apar1 from thi?, it in ut lea^t open
to question how far these agreements
? '; will b? applicable, inasmuch as China
sine? ha? become a belligerent. The
claims oi Japan ?referred to in thin
?.greemen? n?,pt-nr, moreover, to be
?earc?ly compatible with the fourteen
points adopted by the powers associ
; ?ted ?gainst Germany.
"If the council had granted the
? claims of Japan in full for the pur?
pose of [?ague pf nations, an
i* intimated to be the case, China has
I iesa to complain <>t, believing, as she
do??, that it i? a duty to make ?acri
Ji'-'jS for stich a if oble chu?? an the
J<-iigue of nations. She cannot refrain
fron wifthing that the. council had seen
?t, ni would bo far more consonant
-'?-.* .
Q
with the spirit of the league now on
the eve of formation, to call upon
strong Japan to forego her claims ani?
mated by a desire for aggrandizement,
instead of upon weak China to sur?
render what is hers by right.
Had Faith in Allies
"China came to the conference with
a strong faith in the lofty principles
adopted by the Allied and Associated
Powers as the basis of a just and per
manent world peace. Great, therefore,
will be the disappointment and disil?
lusion of the Chinese people over the
proposed settlement.
"If there is reason for the council
to stand firm on the question of Piumo,
there would seem to be all the more
reason to uphold the claim of China
relating to Shantung, which includes
the future welfare of 3<>,000,000 souls
and the highest interest of peace in
the Far East."
-,??
Calls Wilson's
Surrender to
Japan 'Abject9
Senator Johnson Bitterly
Condemns Yielding of
40,000,000 Chinese to
Nipponese "Bondage"
New York Tribuna
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. May 3?President
Wilson was charged with having ab?
jectly surrendered to Japan in ac?
quiescing to the Japanese demands in
Shantung province, in a statement is?
sued here to-day by Senator Johnson,
of California.
"The situation presented the test of
our high sounding platitudes and our
protestations of self determination and
justice to weak nations," said Senator
Johnson. "This is simply another con?
creto illustration of the league of na?
tions. Debtor nations requiring ccono- :
mic aid must yield, and the powerful
and threatening member of the league
will obtain by the strong arm exactly
what, it wants.
"A week airo out of the darkness,
the plot and counter plot, the cunning,
intrigue, and bargaining of the peace
conference, there came a ray of light
when the President denounced secret
treaties. His press agents told us how
firmly he would stand against Italy's
secret treaty, and Japan's worse secret
treaty. At once the progressive Re?
publicans here, delighted to have a
word of frankness, even though ad?
dressed to the Italian public, warmly
and enthusiastically commended the
President's stand.
"Within the week, after an imitation
barrage upon racial equality, the Jap?
anese boldly made their demands, and,
without the semblance of a contest, ap?
parently, the President forgets his
words, which we were still reechoing,
and abjectly surrenders. Here at
stake is a large province of China and
forty millions of people. Japan had
pledged her word to the world at large,
and specifically to the. United States
at the time of tho taking of the prov?
ince, to return it to China.
"Now, under the secret agreements,
she demands that she may break her
plighted faith and keep these lands and
peuple; and a piece conference,
pledged to self-determination and jus?
tice, to the protection of weak nations
against strong, forgets its pretences
and protestations and delivers into
bondage millions of helpless people.
"In the language of 'The Philadel?
phia North American,' 'the peace
conference's concession to Japan of
all Japanese claims against China in
Shantung marks a tragic, overwhelm?
ing defeat of high-minded American
principles.' The decision 'sacrificed
Shantung peninsula, with 40,000.000
Chinese, to Japanese, domination.' Tho
Administration papers which have been
defending the President's decision con?
cerning Italy are. singularly silent
about his surrender to Japan."
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3 U. S. Soldiers Killed
In Auto Accident Abroad
ORLEANS, May 3.?Three American
soldiers were killed and eight injured
seriously when an American army mo?
tor truck was struck by a railroad train
at a grade crossing near La Ferte-St.
Aubin, thirteen miles southeast of Or?
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