The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-15
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Another proposal considered cer- tain to arouse considerable discussion in the meeting was a motion by Sen ator Hitchcock, Nebraska ranking Democratic member that all future committee hearings be opened to the public
 Indications that President Wilson would not be asked to appear before the foreign relations committee for discussion of the peace treaty were said today to have been received in administration quarters.
 High administration officials inti- mated that they had been informed by some members of the committee that the majority of that body seemed hostile to suggestions that the pres ident be asked to appear or that the committee confer as a body with him at the White House
 Should the committee decide not to invite the president to appear before it Mir. Wilson might begin his tour of the country earlier than he had planned.
 In his allegations concerning the Shantung peninsula settlements the Nebraska senator declared these pledges fully explained the pressure which resulted in Shantung's transfer to Japan under the Versailles treaty, whose ratification by the senate, he asserted, would write ''tf1e b1ackest page in the nations history"
 Great Britain's influence in the matter, he charged, was secured by Japan's support of British claims to Pacific islands south of the equator while Frances aid was purchased by a promise of the Tokfo government to help draw China into the war so hot
 would be available for carrying troops and provisions to France.
 "On the 27th day of March 1916," said Senator Norris, "the Japanese minister of foreign affairs at Tokio. approached the British ambassador located at that place, with view of bringing about an agreement with the British government. The British minister cabled to his government at London, and after receiving instruc- tions from his government, wrote the Japanese government on February 16, 1917, as follows:
 with reference to the subject of our conversation of the 27th ultimo his Brittannic majesty's government acceeds with pleasure to request of the Japanese government for an as- sura1ce that they will support Japan's claims in regard to the disposal Of Germany's rights in ShSntung and possession of the islands north of the equator on the occasion of the peace conference; 1t being understood that the Japanese governmenr will in the eventual peace settlement treat in the same spirit Great Britain's claims to the German islands south of the equa-' tor.
 (Signed)
 'Conyngham Greene
 ''On the 21st day of February 1917, the Japanese government replied to this communication of the British government as follows (omitting for nal part):
 The Japanese government Is deep ly appreciative of the friendly spirit in which your government has given assurance and happy to note it as fresh proof of the close ties that unite the two allied powers. I take pleas ure in stating that the Japanese gov ernment on it's part is fully prepar- ed to support in the same spirit the claims which may be put forward at the peace conference in regard to the German possession in the islands south of the equator"
 While the Japanese government was waiting for a reply from the British government, 1t proceeded also to negotiate with the other allied gov ernments. Its message to the French ambassador at Tokio was signed by the Japanese foreign minister and was as follows:
 '"The Imperial Japanese govern ment proposes to demand from Germany at the time of the peace negotiations the surrender of the territaria1 rights and special in terests Germany possessed before the war in Shantung and the islands sit uated north of the equator in the i Pacific Ocean.
 " The Imperial Japanese govern | ment confidently hopes the govern 1 ment of the French republic, realiz 1 ing the legitimacy of these demands, | will give assurance that, her case be- | ing proved, Japan may count upon it's full support in this question:
 "The French ambassador replied to the Japanese foreign office s follows: l
 'oThe government of the French re- public is disposed to give the Jap anese government it's accord in reg ula ting at the time of the peace ne | gotiations questions vital to Japan concerning Shantung and the Ger l man islands in the Pacific north of the equator. It also agrees to sup l port the demands of the Imperial J JapaneSe government IoI Ihe SurIeIl- | der of the rights Germany possessed | before the war in this Chinese prov | ince and these islands
 "'M Briand demands, on the oth- | CT hand, that Japan give its support | to obtain from China the breaking of l its diplomat tic relations with Germany. | and that it give this act desirable s1g- 
 Upon receipts of this communica- | ton the foreign minister of Japan, on behalf of Japan. promised compliance with the request of the French gov | ernment contained in this letter. Sim liar negotiations were entered into | with similar results, with Italy. Sini- lar agreements also were made with | Russia and 1t must be remembered | that at that time, Russia was still in | the war.
 Tt is thus clearly disclosed that while these leading governments of the world were inducing China to get into the war, in order that they might secure her assistance and that they might be able to get possession of | the ships interned in China's harbors, they were secretly plotting among i themselves as to her destruction as soon as she had compiled with their xxraG Tn,