The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-01-20
CHINESE AND JAPs
WILL START AGAIN
Hughes and BaIfour Bring
About Resumption
FARLEY TO TAKE NEW TRACK
conferees Will Avoid Shantung And
Take Up Easier Questions
Faction War In
China.

Washington.-Th conversations"
between the Chinese and Japanese
negotiators looking to a settlement of
the Shantung question outside the
Washington Conference have been re-
sumed
Resumption of the negotiations was
said to have been the result of the
good offices of American and British
representatives Discussion will be
confined, it was indicated, to other
features of the Shantung controversy
to the exclusion of the railroad, which
has proven the basis of the present
deadlock
1t was suggested that If the two
parties could be brought together on
the less controversial detail, their dis
cussions might develop a method of
solution for the railroad. question.
This has been narrowed down to a
matter of form Of payment by China
Japan insisting upon loan from her
bankers secured by the railroad and
with Japanese experts in charge to
insure maintenance Of the line. China,
on the other hand, has insisted that
she be permitted to pay cash and
thereby regain full control Of the
property.
Among the other points still I'M
settled is the important question of
the control of the salt fields of Shan
tung province For some 1000 years
China has held governmental mo-
nopoly over the salt mines through
out the entire country with the ex-
ception, however, of those in Shan
tung. When the japanese inherited
the German rights to Shantung they
invested considerable sums of money
in the salt mines of that province
with the idea of exporting the salt to
Japan. 1t is understood that the
japanese would like to make some
arrangement with China whereby
this exfortation could be continued
under some form of Japanese super.
vision.
Salt Mines Question.
China is said to desire that the salt
mines of Shantung be treated on the
same basis as the output of other
provinces, that is to say, to become
part of the government monopoly The
salt question has already been slightly
touched upon in past meetings of the
delegates.
Bitter factional strife in China as
the result of charges that Liang Shi
vi, the new Premier of the Picking
Government, has been negotiating di.
rect with the Toxic Government for a
settlement of the Shantung question,
in opposition to the will Of the Chinese
people, was declared as being immi-
nent by DR.. M. L. Chang, unofficial
Chinese observer speaking before the
Washington City Club forum.
Gables which l received just be-
fore coming here indicate a very
grave and tense situation" he said.
while the Chinese and Japanese
delegates have been deadlocked here
over the Shantung question, the JAP
anese Government has tried to settle
the matter in Pel1ing to it's own ad-
vantage, and over the heads of the
Chinese Foreign Office and the dele
cation here.
1.-THE revelations that Chang Tso
Lin, the Manchurian tuchun, now in
control in Picking, has been negotiat-
ing direct with Japan has aroused
great tension throughout China, &C.
cording to my cables. General WI
Pei-Fu, the military governor in con-
troll in Central China, has sent out
circular to every part Of the country,
demanding that the new government
resign, and threatening to force it
out if it does not That means war
Chang Tso Lin is powerful and ap
parently has Japanese support, but
Wu-Pei-Fu is the popular tuchun of
China and has the people behind him.
1t has been said that civil war exists
in China, but there has been no real
fighting. The present development
looks like bitter war"