The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-18
By EDNA l.. BOOKER International News Service Stan
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Shanghai, China, Jan. 1s-A storm Of popular anger and bitterness has < sdevelOped swiftly in China due to the RubHcation of messages from the Washington Conference stating that Shantungs face will not be decided by the Conference, but is to be re- { ferred to a Japanese-Chinese parle5A Thousands of students, representa- { dves of Chinese organizations and 1 movement of protest. What probably f is the forerunner of a new country l wide uprising, the outstanding pur- pose of which will be to prevent any ] direct negotiations between China Sand Japan on the Shantung question !: and to bring about the final abroga- tion of Japan's notorious "21 de mands' of 1915, are the mass meet ! 1ngs and parades being held in prac- 1 tically every large city in China. i The new storm of indignation has arisen overnight.
 When the news dispatches arrived ! here from America a bitter protest | arose. The first organized meeting ! against the action of the Conference Shanghai. Thousands of students, merchants and organizations repre- EseEtetives marched through the streets carrying banners bearing the EChinese characters: Unconditional s Return of Shantung.' Cancellation Of Twenty-one Demands" Direct $ Negotiations Doomed Present Claims to Conference" Pray kwashington Conference Upholds Righteousness
 Indignation Meeting
 Twenty-Five thousand Chinese gath cred at the military drill-ground, where a great open-air indignation meeting was held. The direct result of the meeting was the issuance of a fervid manifesto asserting that the Chinese nation is amazed and the confidence of the people in the good 9ect disarmament has been shat tered
 Following the meeting cable grams were dispatched to Picking; to leaders of the Washington Confer
 ence, to the Chinese delegates at Washington and to the leading Chi nese Chambers of Commerce and
 other organizations throughout . China. Copies of the manifesto were sent to all foreign consulates.
 The procession of thousands of dents and children which marched through the streets of Shanghai was led by the China Institute for Desti- tute Children, followed by represen- aT'utan University, Shanghai Baptist College Shanghai College of Com merce. Shanghai Fine Arts College and the Yangshin Girls school the Es-hinese Chamber of Commerce, the Kiangsu Educational Association, shV Vpghai Street Unions Shanghai G,I4ds and Other organizations, mer- chants and /business men,
 Sent Cablegrams
 Among the cablegrams sent were:
 re Alfred I'd fnsst S7s and on '91eagSss 1neo5Gis +ionaJ restoration Of Shantung rights and cancellation of the Twenty-one Denae nds and warning them that any direct barley would be doomed and +hs settlement of these issues by the Conference a vital factor.
 ?. To Hughes and Balfouf inform ,ng them that organized dem onstra- lions throughout China demand that the Conference should settle the shantung question. e..,.-. ,, siance and the Chinese citizens com mending their demonstration and as snring them of the nations support
 4. To the American people solicit tnr their support and notifying them 4hs+ the Chinese people want direct saftIement of these issues affecting +,,e worlds peace by the Conference. as opposed to direct parley Steo oeoweeh
 The fuII text of the manifesto is ~,sd bv the mass meeting is as fol- lows: .b 1-ost, a,1fon Conference convened by Pres sS5ent Warren G. Harding are the re- duction of ornaments ana the ad- fuztnnent of Pacific problems m or . s sss- +r snare the world the horrors of enofher international war, IL IS eN- ceedingiy important that full Justice should be done to China whicn Is one
 1arinr on the Pacific, because the neace of the world is not secure as ifnnr as China is made to groan under -ra crushing burden of injustice aris- s.~ from the Shantung question. the 1<4enty-one Demands and the unjust ts-rns embodied in the treaties con
 rfuded between the Foreign Powers rS China in which the latter had not been treated on footing of equality