JAPAN AROUSED.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 208, 2 September 1919, Page 5

JAPAN AROUSED.

AMERICAN SENATE ATTITUDE.

INSOLENT AND UNFRIENDLY.

ASSURANCE TO CHINA.

(By Cable.— .Press Association.—Copyright.)

TOKYO, September 1

Outspoken criticism is appearing in the Jajianese newspapers regarding the attitude of the American Senate towards the Shantung agreement in the Versailles treaty. The attitude of the Senate ia characterised as insolent and unfriendly, and as provocative towards Japan. ln e unanimous opinion is expressed that Japan must insist on the retention of the clause relating to Shan-

Mr. Hara (Japanese Prime Minister) in a speech to a gathering of the ment party, said J apan ]nusfc stren^hen worlSr± nt - meet if the W ilio "T, 1 - StrU^le ' An «-Japanese aquation in China, he said, was due to s. ssr ast ■•— ™-«.-

According to cables received in Aus traba last week, President Wilson £ token personal charge of the finSrt SSSh^T^ - J - S ,md <-' rst °°d that tiie President views with concern the possibility that the full Senate may 11 *°™S ? . "«Wta, OonimXeVs provision, returning the torf tory to China, instead of Ja-pan ,Tn.nr at °, r , il <: Cumbe '" Joined the President,,n dcclanngthat.it would be unjust to Japan to give China the territory winch Japan took from Germany by conquest, and concerning the disposition of which Japan had treaties with China and the Allies.

Senator McCumber declared that the Republican majority in the Foreign Relations Committee wtas attempting by means of the Shantung amendment to drive a poisoned dagger into the Peace Treaty, placing the United States in the position of a big bully. "The actual ■purpose of the amendment," he said, "is to kill the treaty and the League of Nations. The evident plan is to place Japan in a position where she cannot, without the appearance of being coerced, do what she promised to do. They want to create trouble between the United States and Japan, but they know, as all know, that this country will never go to wax against Japan to prevent Japan doing just what we alllowed every nation to do in China without a protest. The League of Nations-," concluded tho senator, "assures China, that no liiation shall rob her of one inch of territory, or exercise improper control over her people."