The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-15
CHINA WARNS U. S.
OF JAPANESE PLOT
Delegates at Versailles in Co.
blegram Charge Plan for
World Conquest.
SEE U. s. HONOR SULLIED
Appeal to Senate. to Force Re-
vision Of Shantung
Settlement.

The bitterness OF Chinese opposition
TO the Peace Conference dictum which
surrenders Shantung to Japan, Is re-
vesled in a cablesram OF protest and
appeal sent by Eugene Chen. represent
Ing China's delegates at Versailles.
The cablegram, which Is nothing less
than China's warning to America and
the world of a japanese plan for world
conquest, was made public yesterday by
Andrew B. Humphrey. director Of the
China Society Of America and his rea-
son for publishing the cablegram was
the inability, under Its rules, of the
United States Senate to receive the pro-
test and incorporate 1t within the Com
pressiondl Record.
Mr.. Chen begins the long message by
stating that meeting OF China's repre-
sentatives in Paris decided to appeal to
the United States Senate to secure a re-
vision of the. Shantung =. settlement,
China holding that settlement to be- in
consistent with the national honor and
interests of America as we'll as being
an incredible injustice to China. and a
danger to the peace OF The world.
Entered War on wilson's Word.
The Presidents counsel" cables Mr..
Chen, finally brought about Chinas
entrance into the war. Upon him. as
the trustee OF American honor. China
rested her hope .. a settlement enabling
her to live untrammelled and unthreat-
ened by Japanese Imperialism.
The proposed settlement is n denial
of this and a violation of the well de-
fined aim of American foreign policy.
The proposed settlement OF the Shan
tung question Is direct violation Of the
principle of non-interference. Despite
the precise provision of the Lansing i shii
agreement and the notorious character
Of the German servitude of Shantung the
American member of the Council Of
Three has consented to the inclusion In
the Peace Treaty Of two special articles
drafted by the Japanese granting more
than was originally. asked of China and
providing that all German rights in
Shantung are and remain acquired by
Japan. free and acquitted Of all charges.
This injustice Is more glaring when
it is remembered that all treaties of
whatever nature between China and Ger
many werc expressly abrogated when
China declared war on August II, 1917,
notice being given to America and the
allied Powers, and none questioning the
validity of the act Of abrosstion.
Reasons of high policy as well as
your Philippine and Pacific interests.
your historic trade relations with China
and your cultural influence alt witness
the necessity of envisaging the Chinese
Republic as the political child of the
American people and emphasize the just
settlement of the Shantung question as
Of more Importance to America than
Fiume or Dantz!g. and that not in Eu-
rope, but in Asia is the American inter-
est great.
Such settlement is also opposed to the
worlds interest, because thereby a Pan
Asiatic solution of the Chinese question
IL rendered certainty. The Chinese
question involves whether the man power
and resources of China are to be devel-
oped in the interest of the world and
human progress or are to be exploited
and used for sedfish Asiatic ends II
China Is free to cooperate with America
and the West the Chinese question will
be solved in the interest of the world as
a whole. II China is prevented from de-
veloping in cooperation with the West
the Chinese question will be solved in
the sense desired by the Pan-Asiatics
under the political and military leader
ship Of Japan.
German System Perpetuated.
"Pan-Asiatic development of China is
inevitable II the policy embodied in the
twenty lone demands continues in opera
ton. The dominant feature OF this pol
icy is Japan's claim to be the beneficiary
OF German ruthlessness in Shantung. As
one of the allied states China has been
claiming that the destruction OF the Ger
man system cannot be limited to Europe,
africa and the Pacific but must be ex-
tended TO the Far East But the pro-
posed Shantung settlement perpetuates
the German system in China in circum-
stances which result in grave and added