The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-01
BELCIUM'S IRE UP
Little Nation Decides on Strong
Measures if Demands Refused.
Will Not Accept Council of
Three's Program, Paper Says.
CHINA KICKS ON KlA0 CHAU
Demand Former Hun Fortress
Be Given Her Immediately.
Say Japs Get All Hun Rights
There and in Shantung.
CHINA KICKS ON KIAO CHkU
tBy the Associated Pressl


Brussels, Wednesday, April 30.-Ex-
tremely strong measures relative to
Belgiums demands at the peace con-
ference have been decided upon by
the Belgian government, according to
the Soir. Belgium will not accept
the terms the council of three desires
to impose upon her." the newspaper
says "She will demand a complete
fulfillment of the promise contained
in the declarations addressed to her
by France, Great Britain, Italy and
Japan and that expressed in the
seventh of President Wilson's four
teen points She will refuse to sign
any peace treaty which does not re-
store Belgium to political and eco
nomic independence and does not en-
tirely indemnify her for damages sus-
tanned during the war"
Protest Financial Arrangement.
London. May lone of the prin-
cipal features of the arrangement for
Belgium is protesting is that that
country will receive 100,0 100000
pounds as a part of the 1000, 900, 900
pounds which Germany will be asked
to pay by the end of next year, as part
of a total PREPARATION to be eXacted
later according to the Paris cor
respondent of the Mail.
The Belgian delegates. it is said.
decline to accept the arrangement
without consulting their government
| because it leaves undecided the pro-
portion of the ultimate reparation
money to be allotted to Belgium.
A Reuter- dispatch from Paris states
a meeting of the Belgian cabinet has
| been held under the presidency of
/ King Albert and the question has been
| discussed. 1t has been decided, the
| dispatch states, that three members of
the Belgian cabinet will be sent to
! Paris to instruct the Belgian delegates.
China Enters Protest.
Picking, Wednesday. April 30.-Both
houses of the Chinese parliament
passed a resolution today protesting
| thru the foreign office to the dele
gates of the five great powers at Paris
against the transfer of the control of
! Kiao Chau to Japan.
Both houses request that Kaio Chau
| be restored direct to China without
| condition. They also ask that conces-
| sions in connection with the KiaO-
| Chau-Tsinian railway, which were en-
acted from the Chinese government by
Germany and protocols of agreement
relative to the Kaomi and Using
| ChoWfu and other extensions of the
| Kiao-Chau railway be cancelled. a.
| Japs Will Not Compromise.
! Toxic, May 1.-The diplomatic adj
visory council voted today to adhere
| to Japan's attitude relating to the
| Shantung peninsula and to make no
concessions or compromises at Paris,
| according to newspapers here.
| Get KiaO Chau Permanently?
Paris, April 30.-Au German rights
! at Kiao Chau and in Shantung prov
/ ince are to be transferred without any
| conditions to Japan, according to
| agreement reached today by the coun-
| Gil of three. Japan voluntarily en-
! cages to hand back Shantung province
| in full sovereignty to China, retaining
only the economic privileges granted
| Germany and the right to establish a
| settlement at Using Tao, south of Kiao
| Chau.
The American delegation to the
peace conference regards this agree
ment as the best possible solution of
| the Far Eastern problem to be OBJ
tanned without risking break similar
to that which resulted in the Italian
| delegation leaving Paris Confidence
/ is felt that the league of nations,
| which will have control over the flu
| ture relations between Japan and
! China and which will guarantee the
future territorial integrity and indie
pendence of China, will be sufficiently
strong to safeguard Chinese interest
| and insure the return of all China s
rights in the Shantung province.
| President Wilson and Premiers
Lloyd George and CIemenceau are all
| especially eager for the withdrawal of
all allied troops from all enemy COL
onies and are confident that the
| league of nations can speedily solve
pending disputes when military pres
sure is eliminated.
Various lesser details of the peace
treaty were taken up today by the
council of three, among them the
question of the captured German ca
bles.
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