The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-03
Insists Shantung Issue Was
Settled According to JUS
tice, Despite Ferguson.
GERMAN INTRIGUE REAL
Says Teutons' Propaganda
Created Wide Sympathy for
Them in China.
specsol DespoteA to Tnr SUI.


back to-day absolute defiance TO the
critics Of his defensive attitude on the
Japanese question. He insisted to-day
that The peace conference, in its disposi-
ton OF the Shantung issue between
Japan and China. was acting in accord
aDce with Justice. He answered espe-
cially a vigorous attack made on him
recently by John c. Ferguson in THE
SUN.
Prof Ladd said to-day that two fac
tors entered widely into the antagonism
cropping out in some quarters in this
country over the disposal Of this PENN
sula by the peace conference, one being
a lamentable ignorance of conditions in
the East and the second selfish business
interests that would seek rich spells in
China.
Says BogeytsIs Real.
Mr. Ferguson, in his outcry against
Japan. said that Prof. Ladd has fed to
the refuge OF all those who wish to Dol
ster up arguments by appeal 10 prejudice
and has created a DOGGY of German in
trigue which controlled China during the
war"
with reference TO the first point OF
denial" said Prof. Ladd to-day, 1T refer
to the following quotation taken verba-
tim from a reputable paper In the Far
East. and quoted in the Journal Of Raoe
Development, January. 1916. as follows:
Exhaustive inquiries have estab-
lished the fact that the recent demon
stration held by 1000 Chinese students
here (Tokio) concerning the Chino
japanese negotiations owes its origin to
an intrigue by Capt Won Hintze. Ger
man Minister to China on the opening
of the pending negotiations at Pekin 1t
appears Herr Hintze pointed out to
President Yuan the advantages OF caus-
ing Chinese students in Japan to raise
an cutlery against Japanese demands,
and the latter was at last prevailed upon
| to send secret Instructions to his agents
in Toxic. Expenses for the movement
| were betrayed by two men Sirs Sic
mens-Schuchert, notorious in connec-
| ton with the late naval scandal. at the
instance OF Herr Hintse, who feared that
the defrayment by the Chinese legation
might lead to tine quick discovery OF
| the intrigue. The secret agents of Presi-
dent Yuan are continuously holding con-
fererces in the suburbs with the view of
organizing a second meeting for demon
| stration.'
Mr.. Ferguson" continued Prof. Ladd,
must be remarkably innocent OF the
most ordinary knowledge OF German
|
any opportunity to discredit the Japan
ese in China They were even convicted
of hiring Chinese, who, having their
queues cut of, were impossible TO dis
| tinguish from Japanese. to commit all
manner of outrages against the Chinese
OF Shantung in order to dlscredit the
Japanese troops and excite the fury OF
the Chinese against them"
Prof. Ladd then took up the second
point in Mr.. Ferguson's statement, the
assertion that instead Of being disloyal
to the Allies during the war the SYM
patty OF the Government of China
support Of the allied cause.
| with regard to this second point
said Prof Ladd, Sin contradiction to my
| statement, quote from the most recent
number of the Bulletin from the Yale
Mission IN Changsha, just arrived from
China:
"From the beginning the propaganda
OF the Germans in China has resulted
IN a widespread sympathy for the Ger
man cause and a deep seated conviction
that the Central Powers would win.
China's Sad Part in War.
1T is not the scope of these few
paragraphs to recount the sad par,
that China has played in the war. No
soldiers have been furnished, the coun-
try has been kept in a turmoil because
OF senseless civil war. and Germans
IN China have been unhampered In
spreading powerful antl-Allied propa-
eanda and in laying plots for post bel
lum trade conQuests. Conditions came
to such q pass that recently the Allies
officially rebuked Pekin for its almost
criminal negligence in these matters
| n,
testimony contrsdcting Mr.. Ferguson's
statement from an unimpeachable eye
witness in China up to the late spring
OF 1919.
"As to Mr.. Ferguson's third point.
he continued. namely, that the Govern
ment at Pekin is firmly established over
the whole OF China. quite from the
same recent authority:
First Of all. militarism, though
crushed in Europe. is still fiourishing In
China with all the attendant evils and
destructive effects Decisions must be
made at the Peace Conference which will
seek to remedy the deplorable conditions
existing here to-day.
"'Secondly, the majority. even OF edu-
Gated Cinnamon. have an appalling ig,
norance and indifference as to the
causes events and Issues OF the war
An active campaign OF education mus
be carried on to win them over to ar
acceptance of allied ideals.
III China Is to be made safe for the
world and not allowed to become a sec
ond Balkan problem peace must be re
stored. The tottering financial struc
ture must be rebuilt on a sound founda
ton. The army. numbering 1000, 0ot
men OF the worst type. must be dis
banded and given productive work, es
peciAlly in the development Of natura
resources and finally education ant
Christianity must be widely dissemin
ated.'
J Treaty Rights Transferred.
for my part" explained Prof Ladd
. 81 am unable to see how such nlainl,
ignorant and wholly unsubstantiatet
statements as those made by Mr.. Fer
guson can continue TO deceive even tn,
most credulous OF the American public
Once more IL needs to be reiterated anC
kept before the mind that the rights
whatever they may be and however &C
quired, belonging to Germany before tn,
war were conferred on Japan by treaty
with China and that they provide for
return OF Shantung ito Chinese sover
eighty II, as has already been done, tn,
| German rights are conferred to JapaI
by the Peace Conference on tho term
mutually agreeable to the Government
, OF China and Japan"
Prof. Laid stated that he was 1,