Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-04
RETURN sHANTuNG IN YEAR.
Peace Farley Delegate Asserts Pledge
TO World Will be, Fulfilled.

New York. Sept. 4-Restitution OF
the province OF Shantung 10 China by
Japan within year was predicted here
By Yosuke .Matsuoka, secretary Of the
foreign department OF Japan and II
member OF the Japanese peace dele
CATION. Mr.. Mutsuoka has just arrived
here from Paris on his way to~Japan.
II should not be at all surprised,
he said, IF our government within
q very few months, or even a few
weeks, opened negotiations with the
Chinese government with view 10
settling the Shantung question in u
way satisfactory to ali concerned"
In a statement on fhe Shantung
question MIR. Matsuoka said:
ITO those OF US who have partici-
pated in the peace conference there
Is not the shadow OF doubt that
Japan will withdraw from Shantung
at the earliest possible moment.
The peace treaty requires Germany
TO hand over to Japan all the docu-
ments relative to Shantung within
three months after the treaty comes
into force. When this is done. Japan
Immediately will take steps toward the
restitution which Japan has PLEDGED
herself to make In favor of China.
THE terms on which Japan VIII
restitute Shantung are now fairly
well known to the world. Briefly
stated, the main points OF these terms
are:
Japan is to restore Klauchow, the
German leased territory, TO China.
an returning kiauchow 10 China,
Japan, in the interest OF all nations.
asks only one thing, namely, that the
territory be open to international trade
1t is only as natural corollary OF
this proposed mcasure-Shat Japan also
desires to establish an international.
not "A Japanese. settlement in the city
Of Tsingtao. In the Chino-Japanese
agreement of May %. 1915, a Japanese
settlement was to have been estab-
lished in addition to an International
one. but Viscount Uchida, our foreign
minister, stated on Aug. last that
Japan would waive the right to estab-
lish a Japanese settlement. -
Japan viii withdraw all her troops,
not only from the railway zone, but
from Tstngtao. After the restitution
OF hlduCUb" NOT IL sluSlt JhpdhtSS
soldier will be left at Shantung.
The Shantung railway of 270 miles
will be operated. not by Japan but by
a Chino Japanese joint corporation,
in which both Japanese and Chinese
capital will be represented. OF course,
China will participate In the manage
ment of the railroad.
Japan will withdraw her police
forces from alonE the railway and
intrust the Chinese authorities with
the policing OF that region.
Besides the matters included In
the above categorles. there are qucs-
tions of the German submarine ca
bles railway loans and preferential
rights with regard to the supply OF
capital and materials and the en-
plovment of foreigners in Shantung.
"a do not wish to say that these VIII
be the exact terms, hut | am pre-
pared to assert that our overture to
China will be along these lines. Let
me emphasize once more that these
negotiations will be entered into within
n very short time. The solemn pledge
she (Japanl has given to China before
the whole world will be carried out
under all circumstances.
Japan has taken nothing from
China in Shantun&, but proposes 10
give her much what we have taken
IN Shantung was taken from Germany
not China. This p1iat cannot be too
strongly emphasized