The sun., 1919-08-08
UCHIDA PROVED OUR
CASE,SENATE VIEW
Statement Only Made 1t Clear
err That Toxic Intends to q
Hold Shan Jung.
WILSON LETTER "sEvERE'
Served Further to Expose
Japan's Methods and to
Pofnt.'U. s. Duty. !.
Special De.pasoa 10 Tus SUE.

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wAsHNGroS, Aug. 7.-vPresident Will
sons statement In reply TO an sfnplifica-
ton of the Japanese Foreign Minister'S
explanation Of Tokio's attitude regarding
Chanting was the subject of animated
discussion in Senate circles to-day. The
President insists that during the discus
sions In Paris there was no aoquieecence
by the United States or In its behalf in
tho arrangements forced upon China by
Japan In 1915 and 1918.
The United States never assented to
the demands forced upon China and to
which China gave a reluctant acceptance
because she was not In position to de-
fend herself against them. The Presi-
dent has insisted. in his conversations
with Senator's In the last fortnight, that
q statement would be forthcoming from
Japan in the near future which would
clear away all the misgivings regarding
Japan's Intentions in China, and would
make perfectly clear that japan would In
good faith evacuate the great province.
But when that statement did come
from. Toxic, through the words of the
Japanese Foreign Minister. IL left the
matter still SO ambiguous that the
President, instead of being able to point
to It as the verihcation of his promise,
was completed to issue his own state
ment In order that there should be no
Misunderstanding. ~
Senator's regarded Il as complete JUS
tincation of their charges that Japan
does not intend to evacuate Shantung.
and that the only way adequately to pro-
tect China Is to amend the peace treaty
by requiring specifically the restoration
Of the province to China.
Conduct In Corea Cited.
~Japan's whole conduct in China" said
one member of the Foreign Relations
Committee, follows the lines of her
treatment OF Corea, where at every step
toward absorption of that country she
protested her purpose to preserve ana
protect Corean integrity and independ-
ence She fought China in 1896 to In
sure Corean independence, and then
gradually imposed her control step by
step, until finally she absorbed the coun-
try. The story of her aggressions In
Outer and Inner Mongolia, and in Man
churia, Is the same, and now Shantung
n illustrating the same methods"
Senator Norris (Neb.), who helped
make Shantung an issue In connection
with the discussion Of the peace terms,
said:
THE Japanese Government statement
shows that Japan not only intends to re-
main in Shantung. but expects ultimately
70 control all China. Her conduct is
parallel with her course In Corea. Japan
rrofessed great anxiety to preserve the
integrity of Corea every time another
step was taken to strengthen Japanese
control, and these professions were con-
tinued to the very time Japan threw of
the mantle and took over Corea without
reservation. The Japanese statement is
almost conclusive proof of intent to do In
China what she did In Corea- In the
statement Japan says:
:" She Is quite willing to restore "a
China the whole territory in question and
10 enter upon negotiations with the Gov
eminent at Pekin as the arrangement
necessary to give effect to that pledge
Japs should Go Home.
"If Japan desires to restore Shantuns
10 China all. she has to do is to go homo
No negotiations are necessary. II she
does not attend to claim any rights
which affect the territorial sovereignty
Of China in the Province of Shantung' g
decisive and the only honorable way II
to withdraw from Shantung. japan
claims that her troops win be withdrawn
upon arrangements being arrived at be-
tween Japan and China for the restitu
tion of Kiao Chou Everybody know,
that when this arrangement is reached
Il will be an arrangement entirely de
visef by japan. that will give Japar
control of the situation.
ut is apparent that Japan is not act
ing in good: faith or she would hav'
consented IN the beginning that the
treaty of peace should provide for thu
return OF Chinese territory to China
She, Is not acting in good faith in thi'
official statement, because II show!
clearly she does not intend to return
chanting to China except at the end o.
arrangements and negotiations which
she does not even outline and which
everybody knows will in reality sur
render nothing to China that Japar
desires to retain"
Senator MOses's Views.
Senator Moses (N. HI said: