Arizona republican., 1921-07-19
Why Japan Hesitataa

The Japanese mind is a strange mixture of shidiike frankness and cunning indirection. Japan Is hesitating Pacific conference embracing subjects. disarmament and matters in the orient. more particularly the status of China.
 Japanese fear is expressed. according to Mon- days dispatches that if the Far Eastern question ancluded the conference program. America will assist China in the cancellation 2l demands" constituting treaty which forced upon China In 1915. Japan had recently taken Kiao Chow from the Germans extended the territory of the Ger man concession until it embraced the whole of the t;hantunE peninsula
 There had been an incident between Chinese and Japanese troops in Southern Manchuria which afforded Japan pretext tighten its grip only npon southern Manchuria and inner Mongolia where Japan claimed special interests but upon the government of China In January of 1915 there presented the president of the Chinese republic these twenty-one demands arranged in five groups xn the first group there established Japans 1lete control in the province of Shantung and the xclusion of all other nations from leases within the province. or on the islands along its coasts.
 The demands of the second group were to con- firm the claims of Japan to special interests in Southern Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, providing among other things that the of Japan should De obtained to any negotiations with any foreign power regarding loans to be secured by taxes within that territory
 Group three related to a Japanese company en- IxaEed in mining and which to be given mon sopoly
 A single demand under Group four with the ob- feet of effectively preserving territorial integ- ritty of China" forbade the Chinese government to cede or lease to any other power any harbor bay on any island along the coast of China
 Group five was the worst It bound China to engage influential Japanese political. financial and military advisers: China was to obtain from Japan the supply of certain quantity arms or to establish arsenal in China under joint Chinese and Japanese management to be supplied with materials and experts from Japan Japan was also to be granted the right of religious propaganda in China Another clause bound China to secure the consent of Japan to the negotiation of loan from foreign power in connection with railways mines and dock yards in the province Fukien.
 China fought against these demands which in the course of negotiations somewhat moderated The Chinese endeavored throughout to secure a promise of the return of ao-Chow and the added shantung territory to which the Japanese finally agreed the condition the acceptance of all the demands As that meant surrender in ! consider able of Chinese sovereignty China refused in the following May. Japan weary of delay sent an ultimatum and China yielded in toto
 For long time these demands were not pub hshed- Before their publication Secretary of State Lansing made an inquiry to their character Japan replied that there nothing in them con- troverting the Root-Takahara treaty Later when the real nature of the demands was made known all the world. except the United States was powerless to intervene for the protection of the sovereignty China
 At Versailles the subject of Chinas wrong though China ally in the sidered but the Versailles treaty confirmed pos session by the Japanese of Shantung subject its sweet will
 President Harding and Secretary Hughes doubt less believing that nothing be settled unti lii Is settled right and perceiving that disarma ment win not the seeds of war. have in sisted upon adjustment of Chinese affairs Tn, Japanese therefore fear that it the American pur pose right the wrong which was confirmed a Paris in order that Japan might be bribed assen to the League of Nations.
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