Evening star., 1921-12-03
POUR IN
ON CHINESE HERE
Students, Leaders of 0p.
position, Continue Openly
to Voice DisapprovaI.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.
Protests from Chinese in different
parts of the United States against di-
rect negotiations between China and
Japan over Shantung are pouring in
on the Chinese delegation, according
to the student leaders, who are openly
voicing their disapproval here. Auto
mobiles filled with students and car
rying signs warning the Chinese dele
gates against the course they had
been induced to take through the
good Offices of Great Britain and the
United States. drove slowly through
the streets yesterday. Another group
of about twenty students paraded to
the headquarters of the Chinese dele
cation on Massachusetts, avenue and
planted two freshly painted signs in
full view of windows and entrances.
Make Their Appearance.
For time there was apprehension
that the delegates might weaken and
fail to appear at the conference as
result of the first public manifesto
ton which has enlivned it's sessions.
They appeared and any secret preDo-
nations for future trouble at home
which they may have had did not
show on the surface.
When the Chinese delegates con-
scented to waive the contention that
China took over Germany's lease of
kiaochow and her rights in the Shan
tung peninsula when she entered the
war in 1917 the big obstacle to the
joint conference was removed. At
threatened attack on the Versailles
treaty, which awarded kiaochow to
Japan.
Actual Facts Basis.
1T was agreed on the part of the
two delegations that in discussing the
Shantung question:" explained the
official communique. they would take
the actual facts and not the academic
viewpoints as the basis of discussion,
which will be for the sole purpose of
promoting mutual understanding and
good neighborhOod between China and
Japan, and without giving ground for
the least inference that discussion
will be based on the treaty arrange
ments which have been in dispute
between these two countries or
Others
characterization of Chira's fervid
opposition to the Versailles trc-.ty
and insistance for two years on the
unconditional return of Shantung as
an academic viewpoint aroused an
other protest from the sidelines.
Favor Full Conference.
I'VE insist that the Shantuus ques-
tion should be taken up before the
Peter Ward Huang, one Of the elder
students. "China'S principles and
patriotism are not mere ACADEMIC
viewpoints. and we insist that the
powers which signed the Versailles
treaty consider them. We are appre-
hensive of repetition of the Japan
eSe coercion as in the twenty-oTe de-
mands. Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yen was dissuaded from coming to
Washington. and it is hard TO tell
what pressure is being applied to him
in Peking."
The China trade bureau, which
speaks for the South China govern
ment, 81 per cent of the Chinese in
the United States llailing from that
portion of China, circulated a bitter
attack on Peking and the delegation.
''The Peking government is bank
rupt morally. financially and ply
sically," it said Its collapse is ex-
pected daily. Chang Tso Lin and
Tsao Kun. both closely allied with
the japanese. are preparing to open
war as to who shall be its next pres
ident. II would have fallen long ago
had it not been for the recognition
afforded it by the powers.
Millions Borrowed From Japan.
THE Peking government has bor-
rowed millions from Japan and made
many treaties with that country
which surrendered China's natural re-
sources. More than sixty treaties
have been negotiating between Peking
and Toxic. the contents of which fof
the most part are not known to the
Iublic. They seek to reduce China
into a dependency of Japan.
In 1917 Japan again showed her
hand by asserting that a note of
special advice which the United States
sent to Peking should first have been
vised by Toxic. America did not
admit this contention. buta Japan ef-
fectively quashed an American rail
way project and thus won additional
recognition of her powers in Shan
tung province.
The millions Peking secured from
Japan III 1916 to 1919 by pledglng
Chinas railways and natural re-
sources were spent on military estab-
lishments or increased the private
fortunes of Peking officials
Summary of Loans.