The sun., 1919-07-26
WARNS OF ANOTHER
GERMANY IN ORIENT
DR.. Quo, Chinese Peace Dele
gate, Bares Intrigue in
Shantung Issue.
WAR ANNULLED TREATIES
Declares japan Dealt With
Berlin Despite Trading
With Enemy Act.

Japan. by bluff and intrigue, secured
from the Peace Conference a Shantung
settlement, which was a surprise even
to her own delegates in its gross favor
toward Japan, according to DR.. Tai Chi
Quo, one Of the technical delegates to
the conference. who told the China
Society of America. at the Biltmore last
night, that he had been approached per-
sonally by persons from the Japanese
delegation less than a week before tie
settlement with a compromise which
would have given japan much less than
she eventually got.
He began his address with plain his
tory Of the Shantung negotiations from
1898 which showed the indefensible char
acter of the settlement the Senate has
now been asked to confirm.
I'm 1885," he said, Germany secured
her concession as an act of wanton ag-
gression. In 1914. when Japan under
the Anglo Japanese alliance sent an ulti-
matum to Germany demanding the sur
render of Kiaouchow. she engaged for
mally to restore 1t to China In 1915,
however, she served her famous twenty
one demands upon China, and In them
and a series of subsequent notes she said
she would restore Klaouchow to China
under four conditions. one of which was
the establishment of a similar Japanese
settlement near by.
All Treaties AbroEated.
I'm 1917, China entered the war at
the invitation Of the United States. and
on the declaration of war she abrogated
all her treaties with Germany, and In
this abrogation all of the Entente ma
.l,,Ai Staten
Japan, assented. Hence in August, 1917.
ali German rights in Shantung termi-
mated and reverted to China irrespective
of Japan's illegal possession of them.
Japan cannot now invoke the 1915
treaties because they were morally In
defensible and extorted by force. but
most of all because they were based on
a supposed condition of neutrality on the
part of China throughout the war Nor
can she invoke the secret treaties or
1917 with Great Britain. France, Italy
and Russia. because they were made
after China entered the war. They can
not be urged at the Peace Conference
because all the German rights which
they profess to affect ceased to exist be-
fore the treaties were made"
Describing the surprise with which the
final settlement was greeted in both Jap
anese and Chinese circles in Paris, DR..
Quo said that one week before semi
official persons from the Japanese mis-
sion approached him personally with an
official inspiration and offered him the
following terms:
II China would agree to the indirect
restoration of Kiao-Chau according
to the 1915 treaties Japan would not
claim the right to a similar Japanese
settlement on the peninsula, would lead
the other nations in renouncing the So
called spheres of influence in China, and
would lead in invitations to foreign
bankers to develop the trunk line con-
nections of the Shantung railways
Followed ItaIy's Example.
Then, he said. encouraged by the ex-
ample of Italy, japan made her threat
to leave the Peace Conference and got
the settlement which exceeded the fond
est dreams of her avarice.
He warned that Japan could not be
| trusted to return Kiao -Chau, as she had
already established herself near by in a
new development which she will not give
Mp. Even the buildings of Kiao-Chal
have been bought by japanese from
Germans despite the enemy trading ac'
] Of the empire. China, he said. had ever
been refused by the Peace Conference
the right to reserve the Shantung ques
| ton for future settlement, but had beer
| required TO sign withou any reservation
! DIR. Chen Hsu. Minister Of Justice IL
the Canton Constitutional Government
warned America that 1t was not Shan
tung question. but Kiao-Chau question
and that Kiau Chow meant all China
because with the japanese already es
tablished in Manchuria a hold at Kia'
Chau would enable them to close dow
on Pelxin, capital Of China, as with
pincers.
The United States led us into the wa
as our elder brother and must not nov
desert u.s." he said. The victory !
not yet complete. Right has not we
conquered might There Is another Ger
many In the Far East. and the Unite'
States must look there lest there sooI
be another war"