Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-04
Jap Peace Delegate, On His Arrival In New York City From Paris, Says Japan To Fulfill Pledge To China
TO WITHDRAW ALL OF
 SOLDIERS AND POLICE
Will Give China Back Cables,
 Railroads and Other German Holdings; Is Waiting Only To Get Papers From Germany

NEW YORK, Sept. 3-Restitution of the province of Shantung to China by Japan within a year was predicted here today by Yosuke Matsuoka, sec retary in the foreign department of Japan, and member of the Japanese peace delegation. MT. Matsuoka has just arrived here from Paris on his way to Japan.
 T should not be at all surprised, he said, "if our government opened within very few months, or even a few weeks, negotiations with the Chinese government, with a view of settling the Shantung question in a way satisfactory to all"
 Pledge to Withdraw.
 In a statement on the Shantung question, MT. 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 ov- CT tc Japan all the documents rela- tive to Shantung within three months after the treaty comes into force. When this is done, Japan will imme- diately take steps toward the restita- tion which Japan has pledged herself to make in favor of China.
 '"The terms on which Japan will restitute Shantung are now fairly known to the world. Briefly stated, the main points of these terms are:
 Terms of Restitution.
 fo the German leased territory to China.
 Second, in returning Kiao Chow to China, Japan in the interest of all nations asks only one thing, namely, that the territory be open to interna- tional trade. It Is only as a natural corollary of this proposed measure that Japan also desires to establish an international, not a Japanese set clement in the city of Tsing Tao. In the Chinese-Japanese agreement of May 25, 1915, a Japanese settlement was to have been established in addi- tion to an internal one, but Viscount Uchida, our foreign minister, declared on August 6, last, that Japan would wave the right to establish a Japan csc settlement.
 
 Third, Japan will withdraw all her troops not only from the railway zone but from Tsing Tao. After the resti- tuition of Kiao Chow not a single Jap anese soldier will be left on the soil of Shantung.
 Fourth, the Shantung railway of 270 miles will be operated not by Japan, but by a Chino-Japanese joint corporation, in which both Chinese and Japanese capital will be repre- sented. Of course China will partici- pate in the management of this rail road.
 To Withdraw Jap Police.
 Fifth, Japan will withdraw her pc lice forces from along the railway and entrust the Chinese authorities with the policing of that region
 Besides the matters included in the above five categories, there are questions of the German submarine cables, railway loans and preferential rights with regard to supply of capi- tai and materials and the employment of foreigners in Shantung. I believe these questions can easily be settled.
 "I do not wish to say that these will be the exact terms, but am pre- pared to declare that our overture to China will be along these lines. Let me emphasize once more that these negotiations will be entered into with in a very short time. The solemn pledge she (Janan) has given to Chi. ma before the whole world will be carried out under all circumstances.
 Japan has taken nothing from Chi na fin Shantung, but proposes to give her much. What we have taken ip Shantung was taken from Germany, not China. This point cannot be too strongly emphasized"