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JAPAN'S CLAIMS IN CHINA. MINISTER'S STATEMENT.
ia #1 statement made to newspaper correspondents, Baron Makino, the Japanese Foreign Minister, and delegate to the Prace Conference, said:...
TUESDAY. APRIL Úrk, 1919.
blooked. Tsingtao fell, and was occupied U S.A. ASKED TO SEND MORE by the Japanese and British forces. The
TROOPS TO RUSSIA. operation east Japan many millions in money and some 2,000 of the lives of her soldiers and her sons.
After speaking of the co-operation of We ask nothing for Japan but thote British and Japanese forces in the cap-
ture of Tsingtao, Baron Makino said :-- things which appear to us just and équil
Throughout the years of
German able, and of the justice and equity occupation of Tsingtao, as I have said, which we may be able to convince not the harbour grew frost an inconsequential only the representatives of the nations refuge for junks in stormy weather to a in the Peace Conference, but the people great naval base. In the building of the harbour Germany made a capital invost- of the countries they represent. We havement, and this great asset Japan is will no demands to tunke; we merely advance ing to return to China in accordance with certain matters for the same considera- an agreement between the two govern- ments which affords Japan reasonable tion by other nations as we have ourselves opportunity to share, in fair co-operation
the given to them in the light of our owa with China and other nations, in position and the future of the Far East. privileges which China had previously It may be necessary to go back through ment China comes into possession of granted to Germany. Under this agre the history of some years in order that fine harbour, built at vast cost, and the we may arrive at what we regard as a whole territory of Kianchay eighty years fair and equitable conclusion.
Booner than would otherwise have been possible.
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APPEAL BY THE GRANDMOTHER OF THE REVOLUTION.
Catherine Breshkovsky, "grandmother
`ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
of the Russian revolution," stood before STAINER'S the Senate Propaganda Inquiry Com mittee at Washington, on February 14th, and planded carnestly that Amoricu sond machinery and other material to Russid at once to aid in an industrial recon-
struction, which, she said, would want
in ridding the nation of the Bolshevik burden. Allied troops, she said, would bu effective against the brigand Bol- shuvik" only if sugimented and sent on the offensive.
Would Allied troops be welcomed by all Russian except the Bolsheviki questioned Benator Sterling of South
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Certainly. certainly, replied the After alluding to the war with China in
aged woman carnestly, "Our people 1905. and the position in which that con
THE PROVINCE OF SHANTUNG,
there are so tired of the Bolshoviki, so fict left Japan, Baron Makino nid :—
The Chinose territory of Shantung, and, tired. They have asked aid from you for The situation thus created was delicate, the railway line to the city of Tsion had a year. Come and beat the Bolsheviki. and, at times, difficuk. The But Man been, up to the time they fell into Japan's The Russian people will be glad, very churian Railway runs through Chinese hands, controlled by the Germans, while, glad." territory as far as Chang Chun, and 18 German officials were active throughout i
RECALLS HER 32-YEAR EXILE. the only rail transportation outlet for the the province, and much more netive than Throughout most of her testimony Mme productions of the Chinese poate those of any other nation.
The above Show will In fact, ut Breshkovsky spurned the witness chair, tarmers, and manufacturers.
many, line, as before the Senators. The story of
SATUR nese population of that part of the man, this line, as well as the live from stolidly ber seventy five years, and staud be held on province through which the line
Tientsin to Tsinan, was used by Germany Russin's revolt against Gardom, of the DAY numbers maux millions. The present.
next, APRIL Japanese population there is very small to transport troops through China to turmoil which came out of revolution,
During the Tsingtao, cam the Bolshevik disaster" and of present 12TH. All exhibits must Tsingtao. -Dol one half of one per cent. Quitopaign Germany used the Tsingtao Tainan poverty, was told fervently in naturally this penetration by a Japanese
line entirely for military purposes. But English by the woman who was imprison be railway of Chinese territory, or
Bench. d inva immediately Japan took
ed and exiled in Siberia for thirty-two
by possession the
12 sion. as it was called, while within the old antagonisms came more markedly into years for preaching revolution to Russian o'clock. rights granted to us under the term evidence, fanned by the Germans in peasants, and who recently hid herself for
of the Portsmouth Treaty, added fresh fuel
hina, who were caraged at their loss. months in Moscow and Petrograd to The old jealousies were revived because evade death from the Bolsheviki, by whom
she was regarded as too conservative. of Japan's ocupation af another port within the territory of China. As in the case of the South Manchurian Railway, there were unfortunate disturbances and many complaints, just and unjust.
to
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Under the monarchy they put me in jail for spreading revolutionary pro- paganda among my people, and then the Bolsheviki enflod ne reactionary and counter-revolutionist, she smiled, push- ing back her flying white locks, close shorn, with the comb from which they had escaped. It was only a brief referenc to herself, called forth by questions of Senators, in the midst of a plea for sympathetic understanding of the Russian people as distinct from the Bolshevik Government.
We ask you in America for every trifle," she entreated, groping now and thon for an English word, which her interpreter supplied.
among the Chinese to the fire of ants goniem. As a result, the opposition already existing in China against Japan was considerably intensified. From time to time the resoutment showed itself in quarrels between local Japanese and Chinese An active propaganda on the In 1915 Japan, in a desire to bring part of those who sought to one about a rapprochement with China and increase the feeling in China agairist settle outstanding differences, because Japan led the people of China generally of conflicte which had occurred at various conviction that Japan had territorial points, made certain demands apon ambitions. and intended to seize other China, and included among these de- territories on the mainland. indeed to
mands certain expressions as to what become the master or the suzorain of she would desire further in case China
Under such conditions the inevitable wore willing to grant concessions. errors made by some of the people, who make reference to this because we desire went from Japus far seck fortunes into clear the table of matters which con- fuse the public mind to some extent. In Chins, or who were imbued with an the matter of these demanda and the
We are naked. We have no factories, erroneous idea of their own superiorities, adjunct or rider thereto considerable brought about increased ill-feeling, and
FC, I think, occur misunderstandings have,
no banks, no shops, no transportation, no the irritation was intensified by the red and much blame has been
laid at the goods. Our schools have no furniture, a insidious Wags of the enemy
door of Japan. I am not prepared hore pencils, no pena The Bolsheviki heve would be
to say that in the coa and now to discuss the rights and wrongs destroyed all; we need leather for boots; duct of our political and commercial
of that situation, which is past and done also iron, machinery, scissors, ships, tea with. But out of the negotiations cameoferything we need from you. tween China and Japan under which a treaty or agreement entered into be- Japan agreed to restore Kiaochau to China. This couvention is an open docu- ment, and has been published in full. Attached to that agreement are no secret or concealed clauses whatsoever. engagements were catered into by China, and subsequently in 1018 an arrangement was entered into regarding international settlements in Tsingtao and some other concessions by China, giving Japan opportunity, for co-operation with Ching in the development of Shantung in con sidoration for the return of Tsingtao and
It
relations, extending over period of
and and care.
twenty years, serious mistakes have not bean ufado. On the other hand, I have no doubt that the wise people of China them. selves will understand that mistakes have also occurred on their side, and that incidents arising from time to time might have been handled with greater delicoop Throughout this considerabit period China had become a field for exploitation for those from other lands who sought to promote or develop the vast resources which have lain untouched in all the provinces, and which by enterprise and the use of the cheaper
Chinese labour could be turned into profit. Iroa, gold, oil, and, indeed, the almost un-
copp resources of China attracted tho Kinochau.
who
could command capital, or those who hoped to accure valuable concessiona which they could offer in the markets to combinations of capital for the purposes of exploitation.
THE GERMAN INCURSION.
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We
without your help. cannot put back together an organization
Mme. Breshkovsky spoke in a kindly guttural tone, standing in a long black gown and strong Russian boots, but when she talked of the Bolsheviki her voice was
harab.
"They are not Russians," she declared. "They do no good for us. They do not build up. They destroy Russia. They destroy not only our factories and steel everywhere but they kill our best men, our good people. Some brigands get toge ther and come into a town and call them- selves the Soviet. They stay by force, by killing. Oh, no, nol the Bolsheviki are: not Russians.'
stock and elsewhere along the Siberian Railway or the Amur River as far da Irkutsk. In the operations conseq LEZIŃ upon this expedition Japan, in co-opera- tion with her Allies, cleared the country of the immediate menace of the armed forces massed above Vladivostock, at Nicholaivek, and Blagovoshensk, dis persed the bands, and seized considerable suppiles of arms, well as a number of small river vessels, which had been. arived, by the Germans
I make o special point of this expedition, nor do I boast of any achievement. It is sufficient to say that, in agreement with our Allies, we had said that we would, with them, evacuate Siberia when order was restored and a stable Government effected.
The groups of the Caroline and Mar- and adjacent to Japan were under Ger occupied by Japan. We have entered
shall Islands lying north of the equator
man domination. They were taken and
claim for the right to occupy those islands for the purpose of peaceful development and profit. This claim is supported by a sense of right and justice. We believe that they can be developed in the matter of their resources to our advantage and controlled to the greater advantage of their native population than by any other
nation.
I answer
G. W. GEGC, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Hongkong, April 7th, 1919.
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UNPUBLISHED AGREEMENT: "The details of this agreement have not been published owing to an understand ing between the two countries, and because the agreement, is preliminary to business matters which are as yet in an Among those who came from the outside incomplete stage, reason which, of world to China for the purposes of course, will be understood by business exploitation, the Germans in recent years people as well as by Governments. This had been by far the most active, not only agreement was made in good faith by in trade, in securing concessions or in China. We have not hitherto been led to placing louns, but particularly in politi suppose that this agreement of 1918 was cai intrigue.
Having established them. more than a just, proper, and mutually with a naval base in the Far East helpful settlement of outstanding ques at Tsingtao, they proceeded to build there tions, enabling us mutually to approach a magnificent harbour and a city, German the Peace Conference in better under in all its aspects and German in all its standing. In 1917, two years after the methods and undertakings. They built taking of Tsingtao, China declared war the railway from the town of Tsingtao toon Germany. But in 1915 Japan_bad the great city of Tsinan, the capital of pledged her willingness to return Kiso- the province of Shantung. They develop chau to China. Japan has repeatedly el also the railn!
way through the province announced that she has no territorial of Shantung north to south, connecting ambitions in China, but desires to live in
with her neighbour. Tsingtao with this Tsinan line, whichdit In desiring to secure from China & its northern terminus in the city of Tien- isin (where they made a junction again right to concessions in the province of with the railway from Peking) down to Shantung, Japan does not Pukow, On the Yangtze River, near than a fair division in co-operation with Nankin.
Chins. Surely it is not taking advantage of China to ask that we be per- By degrees the Germans became more mitted to trade with her, on the and more the masters of the province of
sadue basis as other nations, to bave Shantung, with its 30,900,000 instant equal opportunity for devolopment and vast treasure and possibilifica.
China has the raw material; Concession after concession passed into we have need for raw material,
The German hands.
part of Taingtee and we have the capital to invest in became more and more important, and at the development of China for its use by has Japan done in this war?
The question has been asked, What would not be an exaggeration to say that ourselves as well as by Chine. I Borc
only by saying that Japan has done her Germany acted as master in that p what labour this point because we are vince, spending money freely, and practi
accused of aims in an exactly opposite best. It is perhaps not unseemly to state that ber fects in the Pacifle and Indian cally blocking the efforts of all other's to direction to those of fair co-operation and
oceana and in the Mediterranean travers. secure & share in the yield she expected partnership as well as being accused of to produce as her development proceeded, the folly of making deliberate and obvious ed over 1,200,000 miles in the work of aiming always at weakening the influence efforts to take advantage of our neighbour protecting transports and merchant ves of other nations in the Far East
We realise the great change that hassels from the submarines and we esported. When war was declared by France, takon place and must take place among three-quarters of a million mon rushing to the aid of France and Britain; England, and Russia against Germany in ather.
nations in their dealings one with the Japan's geographical position, her fo August, 1914, all peaceful commerce en
*L** We feel that after the expenditure sarees, and the fact that the Pacifo the Pacific and the Indian Oceans was
end the loss of 2,000 precious lives, small Ocean was freed of the menace which has menaced by the German fleet, hoend barboured in the new naval base at Tsing as it may be in the great toll that has threatened. the freedom of other seas enabled us to provide considerable quan tao. Germany was confident Japan would been reaped in this fearful struggle, we not deciure war. But, as the ally of Great are entitled to receive from Germany tities of war supplies and materials to Russia. to England, and to Franco, and, Britain, Japan, within a few weeks after delivery of that which she refused to
deliver in order that it may be returned including loans to Russia, the money ex- the outbreak of war, also declared wat upon Germany,
and
bor next stop was
was to its rightful owner. Lot me omphusies penditure has been a yory considerable that neither in Shantung nor in Man-item in the budget of Japan. But these to tell Gerinany that she must evacuate Tsingtao, with naval or military equip churis does Japan seek to take improper are small matters in comparison with of our sacrificon magnificent Bho secks equal the
The Government and ent which might be there. In the ulti, advantage of China.
tho opportunity, an open door, and the right Western Allies malom Japan demanded that Gormany coful co-operation between the two the people of Ja Britain nud France return Kiau-chau to China Thore wns
loyal allies of Great no suggestion that Japan had any desire nations of the Far East.
and the friends of Russia and to secure that territory as he outh, or
the United States. It is not for thejberé even to take the place of Germany
Bome reference may be made to enter into a narrativy of what we have fessen. Germany refused, and the Japan Siberia. In the year 1018 Japan, at the done in detail. It is sufficient to say that se deat, with British ships, a few days request of her Allies, shat her troops into what huts been given or spent and what
The NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS Co., Inter lay outside the roadstead of Tsing Siberia for the purpose of assisting the has been lost in the cause for which the
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soners who, wall armed, were co-operating assist in the work of building barricades Japanese bombarded and sunk in the dick with the Bolsheviks, as well as to protect against war and in forging links of ane modern Austrian cruiser, but the vast internationsstores in Vladivo friendship and understanding between fortunately the main ships of the Gering floot had counpod before the exit was (Continued at foot of next column.) the nations of the East and of the West.
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