The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-22
sHANTUhe-AND WORLD PEACE


pensate fcrsthe space it occupies, and
we know that it's perusal will De very
enlightening,
The article is taken from me Dear
born independent Uncle Henry Ford's
new publication:
! The area of Shantung is about the
/ sameas the area Of the state OF Mich
4 igan-a trifle less. Through the cen
ter of the province is range of noun |
tains 100 miles wide and 200 miles
long, taking about one-third OF the
TERRITORY. Another considerable pOr'
ton of the land is rendered barren by !
salt mixture with the soil
Now, if you can imagine crowding
into the state Of Michigan all the peo-
pie of the states of Pennsylvania. |
Ohio Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, 'ViscOnein, Minnesota, North
Dakota. South Dakota, Iowa and Kan.
sas you can get something of an idea
Of the population of Shantung.
Try to think, of showing into Mich
gan all the people in the cities CT
! Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton
and Toledo, Indianapolis, Chicago,
/ Louisville. St. Louis, Kansas City, !
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, ST. Paul, Du
luth, Des M0nes, and Topeka, and all |
the people living in the country for
hundreds of miles about those cities,
and you have the crowded condition
Of Shautung
Something near twO-thirds of the
soil is fertile, and there are rich
mines in the province.
Two missionaries, Catholic priests,
subjects of Germany. went into Shan
tung, and were murdered.
Germany wanted to get foothold
in China, and, using this is a pretext
demanded lease on a port, and GER
tain ether rights, for SO years. This /
fswas in 1898.
China gave I'M because she had to,
and Germany took over the small
| fishing city Of Tsingtau, on KiaochOw !
| bay, and got mining and railroad con-
! cessions in the province.
Electric lights, telephones and 9th |
er modern Improvements were Install |
ed in Tsingtau, and railroad pushed !
out into the province. German en- |
terprise was felt.
England got b similar lease and a !
similar fOOthOId in another port, Wei
haiwei, to the northeast of Kiaochow.
| When the war broke out in 1914,
/ Japan went after Germany to wrest
from that empire the territory and
rights she had forced from China. it
took eleven weeks fighting, much of
which was fierce, but Germany finally
was defeated, and Japan took over
German interests
In 1915 Japan asked China to make
a treaty confirming Japans rights in
the province. China was slow about
it; Japan sent an ultimatum, and Chi
ma signed up. China signed another
treaty last year, again recognizing
Japan's rights.
China did not like the situation at
all, although there were unquestioned
Improvements among the people, ana
although she had made treaties-very
much against her will
Japan had promised to restore the
rights to China at the proper time,
allowing a reasonable time for proper
transfer, by documents, of Germany's
rights to Japan, and completion IF
other matters Japan at the same
time safeguarding certain of her 9th
er interests in, Manchuria.
China came to the peace conference
with her grievances, and asked the
nations in the conference to force ia
pan to restore that which China had
signed away under force.
England did not use German meth
DDS to get her hold in the same prov
ince of China, but England an dJapan
were and are on very friendly terms,
and if Japan were forced to restore
what Germany stole, and what China
afterwards coded, how far would the
league feel like going? Well, England
could not help turning her eyes to-
ward her holdings.
Taken all in all, it was It nasty sub
Iect TO handle, and there stood ia
pans promise of final restoration,
with the claim that it could not be
done now, either in the interest of
China or of the people affected.
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