The New York herald., 1921-12-03
JAPAN'S SHANTUNG
PROPOSALS REVISED
Delegates Believe Sacrifice Is
Made in Sympathy With
Chinese.
FAIR PLAY is ASKED
China Reminded of TOkiO's Ey-
penditure in Ousting Ger :,
man Occupants.
FAIR PLAY is ASKED
ny Is. IA. KAwAKAM.

Specidt Correspondent of the JiH
Shimpo, Toxic
Special Despatch 10 TIN New York HEsAtp.
New York Herald Bureau.
washington, ID. c., Dec. g
With the Japanese and Chinese delA
gates holding their first meeting this1
afternoon as arranged through the good
offices OF Secretary Hughes and Mr.
Balfour. Shantung continues to be the
outstanding question at the conference.
The japanese delegates welcome this
opportunity OF publicly discussing the
terms Of settlement they now offer
They think that these terms should be
clearly understood and that all data
should have the widest publicity They
believe China is making mistake in
demanding the unconditional surren-
der of all the former German possess
sions in Shantung as though she had un-
disputed right to them.
She would do well to remember that I
the former German possessions were
taken by the Japanese not from China
but from Germany at cost of 1000 in
killed and wounded and $15,000.O00 In
money. The total expenditure OF her
army and navy in the great war was
S462,0OO.O0O. Japan drove Germany
from Shantung when China was torn by
discord and had neither the will nor the
ability to attack the German stronghold
The peace treaty of Versailles con-
ferred upon Japan all the possessions
and rights formerly enjoyed by Ger
many in Shantung. but Japan has modi-
fled her claim to those rights and has
signified her intention to give up every
thlng Tor China except half share in the
Shantung Railway and two coal mining
lots and an iron mining lot.
Basis of Settlement.
Briefly stated. the basis of settlement
upon which the Japanese delegates hope
to solve the question consists of these
eight terms
First-The leased territory OF Kiao-
chow. 200 square miles In area, will be
returned to China.
Second--Japan does not seek to es-
tablish an exclusive, or even interna-
tional, settlement in Tsingtao, the capital
Of the leased territory, but will place the
whole territory under Chinese admins
tration. In return Japan asks China TO
open the whole leased territory to for
eign trade
Third--Japan wants the Shantune
Railway. only 245 miles long, together
with mines appurtenant thereto, to be
worked as joint enterprise in which
Japanese and Chinese will be equally OF
equitabiy represented both as to capital
and management.
Fourth-Japan gives up. in favor OF
the international financial consortium
Tin which America figures most prom
inentiy), privileges she had obtained for
the construction of three new lines
namely. the Tsinan- -Shunteh line. l5s
miles; the Kaomi-Shuchoul line, 239 miles.
and the Weichien-Yentai line, $50 miles
Fifth-Japan renounces all preferen-
tial rights formerly enjoyed by Germany
and transferred TO japan by the YER
sailles Treaty with regard TO the en-
ployment of foreigners and foreign cap
itai and material.
Sixth-Japan will Withdraw her troops.
now only $500, guarding the Kiaochow-
Tsinan Railway the moment China Ia
ready to place her own guards along
the line
Seventh-The Tsingtao Customs House
Will become an integral part of the mari
time customs system of China.
Eighth-Japan will hand over 10
China all public property used for ad-
territory.
Yields on Settlement.
1t will be noted that Japan has aban.
doned Ler plan to establish in Tsingtao
an exclusive settlement. She is not ask
Ing even for an international settlement.
but will return the entire territory or
kiauchow 10 China in full sovereignty.
Under the German regime China for
feited the right to employ any foreigner
in Shantung except Germans She also
obligated herself to purchase only from
Germany any material or machinery
that might be needed in Shantung
Japan. in the interest Of the open door
is willing to give up all such preferen-
tial rights. She has turned over TO the
international consortium even the three
projected railways. totalling SIS miles,
for which she advanced SIC, 600. 900 to
the Chinese Government in 1913.
While prepared to sacrifice much out
OF sympathy for the Chinese delegation
the Japanese delegates believe that
Japan should be given a square deal. 1t
will never do for America and Britain
TO let Japan go home with the feeling
that fairness has been denied her at this
conference.
In a province of $500 square miles.
Japan's half share in a railway of only
245 miles. two collieries and an iron
mine. cannot, by any stretch of the
Imagination, be regarded as a menace.
for Japan's participation In those inter
prises IL to be purely economic. There
will be no Japanese soldiery or police
guarding the railway or the mines.