KIAOCHAU DEADLOCK

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 5

KIAOCHAU DEADLOCK

HAMPERING SECRET TREATIES

JAPAN SEEKS FULFILMENT.

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(Received May 3, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 3pth April. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News points out that the Japanese deadlock over Kiaochau was aggravated by four secret European agreements. In 1917 Italy and Russia, agreed, without condition, that Japan should succeed to all Germany's rights in China. France agreed, subject to certain action against the property of German subjects, and Britain signed the agreement after stipulating that she should have similar rights in regard to German holdings in the South Pacific. The agreements seriously handicap the settlement. China offers to defray tha expenses of the Japanese campaign .provided that her lights in Shantung are unconditionally returned to her, but Japan firmly demands that the secret treaties shall be fulfilled.

(Received May 3, 9.15 a.m., delayed.) NEW YORK, 23rd April.

. The New York Times correspondent at Washington states that Baron Ishii, who had planned to return to Tokio to consult his Government, has postponed his trip until Juno.