New-York tribune., 1922-01-27
Delegates Will Ask Toxic
for Permission 10 Con.
sent 10 Immediate Re.
turn Of The Province
Favorable Answer
Believed Assured
China to Govern District
Free From Financial
and Economic Control
BY Thomas Steep


AShINCTON. Jan. 2G.-P Prompted
oN PRESIDENT IIardings mediation. the
Japanese delegation recommended &c
oklo by cable to-day acceptance OF
China's final terms for q settlement OF
INC Shantung controversy. No doubt
exists as to the result Tho President
and Secretary Of State Hughes have
hecn assured definitely that Shantunc
wilt be restored to China.
The restoration will be immediate
except that certain Japanese officials
VIII remain on the Shantung Railway
running from Tsingtao the port. tc
Isnan, capital of the province. to CO.
operate with Chinese officials in effect,
ing the transfer of the property. The
Jolnt Japanese-Chinese administration
is to terminate in period not lonye,
'0an tive years. But the rest OF tho
province is to be surrendered uncon.
d'tionally. Japan will yield all eco.
rom'c and financial control. Payment
for the railway is to be on te rms tha, h;
VIII enable the Chinese government tt
assume ownership at once and will con
s'st OF Chinese treasury notes extend
ihs over fifteen years, but redecmablt
at the option Of the Chinese within five
years.
I. $. fncurs No Responsibility
Although the impending settlement is
attributed directly FIRST to the uoof
oihces of Mr. Hughes and Arthur !
baifour head Of the British delegation
ana an, finally to the President himself
Inls government, it WAS pointed out by
INC spokesman for the American dele
sa''oh' lncurs no responsibility. The
agreement between China and Japan
"h'ch will probably be put in treaty
.orm, VIII stand on it's own basis but
IL VIII be noted in the record Of the
armament limitation conference. Thus
Nnina WI have the moral backing Of
'l' 'ne other powers that the terms will
ue carried out. and the conference itself
WV. nave succeeded in removing dis
pu'e ,,. wh'ch MIR. Hughes referred to at
tue outset as one of the discernble
sources of disturbances to the ncace
Of the Far East.
fr'ends OF the President pointed out
.o-aay that it was particularly fitting
.ha' nc should have been Instrumental
N Fastening a settlement. The Pros;.
dents activity was entirely informal
Dr Alfred Szc, the Chinese Ministrr
VINO called at the White House with
"r; hughes yesterday, said TO-DAY he
hao impressed on the Executive the OK.
IRENE seriousness to China of an nd.
Jour,nment OF the conference without 3
settiement' The President, whose in
tcrest IN China's behalf was shown
when he attacked the Shantunr award
IN the Versailles treaty in the Initial
states Senate in 1919, made no supres
t'on whatever that China should &C.
ccpt Japan's terms, DR.. SIC said
Harding Sympathetic
"on the contrary" said Dr.. Sac. 1.-The
PRESIDENT evinccd the sincerest svn,.
pathy in China's struggle to rcga;n y y 1', ~
lost province. I told him that r Shan.
tung remained in Japan's control tho
wninese people would feel huniljated
Inc President was In accord With this
view. ''' I'll ''
It was rot disclosed what suggestions
the President made, but it is under
S!ood ms views were communicated to
baron Shldehara, the Japanese Ambas.
sador, with ,ntlmations that tho United
states Senate, when it came to pass
upon treaties growing out of tho con.
ference. would be likely to be infu-
enccd by any failure on the part of
japan to carry out her pledge in regard
to Shantung made when she took il
from Germany in 1914
Two facts were made known TODAY
by the Far Eastern subcommittee on
drafting, headed by Elihu Root, of the
American delegation, in regard to the
proposed nlne-power treaty on China
One is that it is to be treaty, not a
mere me-, agreement which will apply to
China as comprehcnsively as the four
power treaty, already adopted by The
conference, deals with the islands of
the Pacific: The other development is
that the China treaty will supersedc
the franco-Japanese treaty of 1907.
Alliance Now Superf1uous
IN abrogating the French treaty the
same procedure will be followed as was
observed in multiplying the Anglo-Jap-
ancse treaty. France and Japan CON
cludcd an alliance to protect their
CONTINUED next nana)