New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-01-14
China to Open
Tsingtao Port
To All Nations
Under Agreement Reached
With Japanese Delegates
Equal Trade Opportuni-
Tics Arc Promised al Once
Chinese Regain kiaochau
Compromise OF Shant,,ng
Believed Near: Far Eastern
Program Awaits Decision
BY Thomas Steep

BY Thomas Steep
WASHlNGTON. Jan. 13 Under an
agreement reached by the Chinese and
Japanese delegates in their direct ncgo-
tiations day. Tsrgtao the port of
Shantung will be opened by China
with equal opportunities to the trade
of all nations' Likewise, the district
Of Kiaochau, formerly held by Ger
many. will revert to China. The dis
trict embraces a zone of thirty five
miles around Kiaochau Bay. on which
Tsingtao is located. China thus re-
gains possession of that pat OF the
coast Of Shantune taken by German.
in 1898, but which for tho last seven
years has been held by Japan.
The exact term used in the agree
mcnt on Tsingtao is that it shall be
self opened" DR.. Wang Chung Hui
explained that it was China's purpose
to open it at once. 1t will be added
to the system Of about fifty other open
ports of which China has control. About
fifty others arc treaty ports.
Compromise on tho whole Shantung
controversy is now believed to be in
delegation has submitted Il proposal
for compromise to Picking. and the
Japanese delegation announced that it
also had communicated with its gov
crnmcnt in reference to a proposed
compromise. The move toward a com
promise. taken after both sides had
broken off negotiations when they came
to Il deadlock. is believed to have been
the result OF an energetic protest made
by the Chinese delegates to tho Amer-
can delegation that great disarpoint
mcnt. with possibly serious results.
would follow throughout China il the
Washington conference failed to settle
this controversy.
Far Eastern Program Delayed
Moved by pleas of the Chinese. Sec
rotary hughes and Arthur j. Balfour
arc said to have made it known unotii
cially TO the Japanese delegates that
America and Great Britain would look
off of negotiations. and that they,
therefore, would delay the rest Of the
Far Eastern part Of the conference
until the question is settled.
Consequently no meeting will be held
tomorrow other than that between the
japanese and Chinese delegates
The spokesman for tho American del
cgation said to-day that it would be
impracticabc to go on with other Far
Eastern questions when one OF the
most important of chem is changing
iiTc. mo ono doubts that an agree
ment will be reached. and it is incon-
cclvablc that any country for selfish
reasons is going to continue bargain
ing at the expense Of the rest of the
aceDda.' he said with vigor Signs
OF impatlcncc over the way tho ncgo-
tations have been repeatedly broken
off and resumed were shown by heads
of other delegations. They pointed out
that tho committee on Pacific and Ear
Eastern questions has been prevented
for almost a month from proceeding
with its other problems, including
those relating to Siberia.
To Press 81 Demands Question
Anticipating Shantung settlement.
DR.. Wang announced to- day that China
would insist on a consideration of the
famous twenty demands at the
committees next session. If japan
carries out her threat to dismiss the
subject "withln a few minutes" as NJ.
lanihara. the Japanese Vice FOREIGN
Minister. said she would tho Chinese
delegates. DR.. Wang said. would pre-
scnt q protest. In this protest attcn-
ton will be called TO the fact that tho
twenty one demands made on China hy
Japan in 1915, in tho form Of an ulti
matum violated the rights of other na-
lions in China, that under the demands
Japan violates the principles to which
she subscribed at the opening of the
conference, and that grave consc-
Quenccs would follow in China if the
powers give their sanction to the de-
mands by refusing to consider their
abrogation. Dr. Wang said.
Won't Discard Siberian Problem
so kccnly arc the Chinese ncoplc
aroused over these demands that thcv
@lght even overthrow the present Pc
KING government if our delegation hero
Tails ID have them reviewed and abro
gated said Dir. Wang He added tina
Premier Liang Shih-yi's power depend
cd largely on the action of the con-
terence i'll regard to the demands.
SIBERIAN questions arc to be consid
cred in detail rather than dismissed
by tine adoption of a set of principles.
1t was learned to-day that Secretary
hughes has no intention of abridging
the conference agends simply because
the Chinese questions have continued
longer than was expected. The agenda
call Tor consideration of Siberia
questions with the same minuteness
gwen to those relating to China. The
chief Issue is the presence of 40 OoO
japanese troops at Vladivostok and
along the trans Siberian Railway
America intends to hold Japan to her
pledge made in 1918 that the troops
are to be Withdrawn