WAR SOONER OR LATER.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 197, 20 August 1919, Page 7

WAR SOONER OR LATER.

( THE SHANTTTNG TREATY. AMERICAN WRITEH'S VIEW. A BLUFF THAT SUCCEEDED. WASHINGTON", August If. Mr. Thomas Millaxd, the American ■writer attached to the Chinese delegation to the Peace Conference, informed the Foreign Relations Committee of the that ar-eordinj: to the unanimous 1 view of Amerimui diplomats in l > axis, ] tiie Shantiinq; Treaty would sooner or l , later result in war in the Fax East. ''] Mr. Wilson, he said, after an att-empt j fo persuade Japan to modify her terms regarding Shantung, learned that the 1 Japanese delegates intended, it tlicir claims were refused, to leave the confer- s ence and abandon the Ijeaime of Nations. , The other diplomats believed that Japan , blurlinir, but ilr. Wilson did not. , According to the "New York Times,"' , reports from Tokyo received in Washin™- ; ton state that tiie Japanese fiovernment has warned China that further disturbances in Manchuria similar to the recent incident at Kuan;* Chenjriiu. where . Chinese soldiers attacked a Japanese j patrol, will be inimical to Japanese | interests. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) ;