SHANTUNG PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 305, 19 September 1921, Page 5

SHANTUNG PROBLEM

PROPOSALS FOR RETURN TO CHINA JAPAN’S PROVISIONS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Bee. September 17. 5.5 p.m.) Washington, September IG. The Japanese Embassy has published the proposals Japan has submitted to China regarding Shantung. The principal provisions are:— (1) Tho leasehold of Kiaochau rights originally granted to Germany over the fifty kilometre zone round Kiaochau Bay shall be restored to China. (2) Japan will abandon the plans for a Japanese exclusive settlement or international settlement of Tsingtao, provided that China opens the leased territory of Kiaochau as a free-trade port and permits tho nationals of all foreign countries to reside there and carry on commerce; China shall also open the Shantung province for residence and trade to all foreign nationals. (3) The Kiaochau-Tsinanfu railway and all mines appertaining thereto shall be worked by joint Chino-Japanese enterprise. (4) Japan will renounce all preferential rights for tho supply of personal capital and material stipulated in the ChinoGerman Treaty of 1898. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. IF CHINA DECLINES TERMS JAPAN MAY REFUSE TO DISCUSS QUESTION AT WASHINGTON. TOkio, September 16. It is authoritatively intimated that if China declines Japan’s proposal regarding the return of Shantung, Japan may refuse to discuss the Shantung question at the Washington Conference.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.