New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
China Wins Marked Con-
cessions, but Japan In
sists ON Retaining Its
Control of Manclluria
Promises 1t Will
Give Up Shantung
Britain Is Ready to Relin-
quish Weihaiwai and
France Kwongchowwan
BY Thomas Steep

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. = China
achieved historic progress to-day to-
ward relief from foreign control. She
obtained the consent of three powers
to surrender important leaseholds Of
Chinese territory. But Japan, while
willing to make other concessions, an
nounced that she would decline to give
up Manchuria.
Great Britain agreed to relinquish
her leasehold of Weihaiwe, a naval
base in Shantung Province. on the
Yellow Sea, which she acquired in 1898
as check to Russia's aggression in
the Pacific and as a means of "pre-
serving the European balance Of power
in the Far East"
France will give up Kwongchow-,
wan, port in Kwangtung Province, of
which Canton is the capital, which she
also acquired in 1893 on ninety-nine
year lease for use as a naval base
within convenient sailing of French
Indo- China.
Japan will surrender her Shantung
district of Kiaochau, in which the port
Of Ts1ngrao is included, asserting that
this concession may be considered in
the negotiations now in progress be-
tween China and Japan for a settlement
Of the whole Shantung controversy.
Clings to Hold OH Manchuria
But Japan. in surrendering Kiaochau,
reasserted her intention Of remaining
on the Asiatic mainland by declaring
she "has no intention at present to re-
iinquish the important rights she has
lawfully acquired" in Manchuria. Masa-
mao Hanihara, the Japanese Vice-Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs, pointed out that
Japan's purpose to retain her Man
churian holdings would permit of no
discussion Of their possible relinquish
ment before the armament conference.
Her possession of Manchuria, which
she acquired from Russia as result
of the Russo-J Japanese War, includes
military and civil control of virtually
the whole 363,000 square miles, with
the fortress of Port Arthur, on the
Liaotung Peninsula, and Dairen, port
on the Kwangtung Peninsula, and the
South Manchuria Railway connecting
the ports with the trans-Siberian sys-
tenn. .l
Japan's emphatic refusal to yield to
any suggestion before the conference
, looking to her surrender of Manchuria
or any rights IN it almost transcribed
in Importance her own and the other
powers agreement to surrender lease
holds along the Chinese coast. The
Japanese delegates announcement of
| their country's intention regarding
Manchuria was received under dra-
matte circumstances. Mr.. Hanihara
arose from beside his colleague, Prince
Tokugawa, in the chamber occupied by
the conference committee on Pacific
and Far Eastern questions, and after
stating that Japan would give up her
leasehold on Kiaochau, began to state
emphatically that the Mikado's gov
ernment intended to remain in Man
churia
Ready to Quit Shantung
Arthur j. Ralfour, for Great Britain.
and M Viviani, for France, had told of
their respective governments willing
ness'to give UP ninety -nine-year lease
holds on condition that the renuncia-
tions we're to be carried out by all the
powers concerned. As her part in
that arrangement, Mr.. Hanihara said,
Japan would surrender the district in
Shantung, but he expressed the desire
that such stipulated concession would
be taken into consideration in the ne
gotiations now under way between
japan and China under the friendly
auspices Of Great Britain and America.
"The only leased territory, there
fore, which remains to be discussed
at the conference so far as Japan is
concerned" said Mr.. Hanihara, "is
Kwantung Province, Port Arthur and
Dairen. AS to that territory, the Jap
anese delegates desire to make it clear
that Japan has no intention at present
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