The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-26
ARTICLE XII.

we nave seen JnaJ all the great pow
ers pursued the same course in China
that of weakening and dividing the
Chinese nation, of insisting on the
right of foreign missionaries and
businessmen to privileges far in ex-
cess Of those enjoyed by the Chinese
themselves; when outbreaks occurred
after the patience of the extremely
patient Chinese had been exhausted
the foreign powers used these out
breaks as an excuse to increase their
military forces and for additional de-
mands upon the Chinese nation.
The Boxer indemnity forced from
China by united action Of all the great
powers in 1900, and guaranteed by for
eign control of the customs revenues,
was the first great blow struck at
Chinese sovereignty by the imperialist
nations acting as a bloc. From this
period on the rise of Japan, with the
increasing influence of Great Britain
becomes the factor of chief import
ance in China.
ME have seen that Japan and Great
W Britain succeeded In eliminating
7 czarist Russia and Germany and that
as result Of the these adventures
Japan has become the foremost i'm
perialist power in China with Great
Britain as her principal imperialist
rival and the United States acting as
runner-up because of her increasing
interest in the Pacific.
China was brought into the world
war by promises made by the allied
nations; these promises were to the
effect that all the grievances of the
Chinese would be heard and adjusted
at the peace conference. In this In
trigue the United States played a
leading role.
DUT imperialist promises are made
- to be broken and having been led
into the world war with the result
that the Chinese militarists at home
gained the upper hand over the Chi
nese republican movement and civil
war tore the nation to bits, the
Chinese found that the peace confer
ence was not for supplicants but for
aggressors. Japan, not China, was the
oriental power to whom the western
imperialists catered
japan received from the peace con-
ference an endorsement Of all her acts
Of robbery in China Under the Yer
sailles treaty, without consultation
with China, Japan received the spoils
Of war in Shangtung. In other words,
the territory that Germany had held
only by lease, became by this treaty
the possession of Japan with the
peace conference acting as the proc
urer.
THE portion of treaty dealing with
4 this question is in articles 1856, 157,
15S. In reading these sections legal
izing the most brazen robbery of all
those bloody thefts perpetrated in the
name of democracy" during the world
war, 1t should be kept in mind that
the territory and properties mentioned
belonged, not to Germany, but to
China. The agreement, as tho no such
country as China existed, is made be-
tween Germany and Japan. Article
156 read in part as follows:
Germany renounces in favor of
Japan all her rights, titles and
privileges 49,. All German rights
in the Tsinotao-Tsinsn-fu railway,
including its branch lines 4. Its
subsidiary stock 49,. mines, plant
and material for the exploitation of
the mines, are to remain acquired
BY japan .....
The German state submarine
cables from Tsinotao to Shanghai
and from Using Tsao to chefoo
are similarly acquired by Japan >.
Article 1877 says in part:
The movable and immovable prop
erty owned by the German state in
the territory of kiaochow as we'll
as the rights that Germany might
claim ... are and REMAIN &C.
CURED by Japan Emphasis
mine.)
A RTICLE 1853 is the most amazing
4 of all 1t is an admission of the
utter illegality of the whole proceed
ing but takes the necessary steps to
make appeal against it on this ground
impossible. The situation was exactly
the same as if a landlord, having oc-
cupied the premises of rival, had
then demanded and received all deeds
to the property which the rival in
turn had forced a third person to
give him. The article reads:
Germany shall hand over to Jap
an, within three months from the
coming into force Of the present
treaty, the archives, registers, plans,
title deeds and documents Of every
kind, wherever they may be, re-
lating to the administration, whether
civil, military, financial, judicial or
other, Of the territory Of kiaoehow.
Within the same period Germany
shall give particulars to Japan of
all treaties, arrangements or agree
ments relating to the rights, title or
privileges referred TO In the two