CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 17085, 2 July 1919, Page 6

CHINA

WHAT JAPAN WANTS. A CLOSE PRESERVE; Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Delayed in Transmission.) NEW YORK, Juno 28. (Received July 2, at 9.29 a.m.) The ‘New York Times’s’ Tokio correspondent states that the Jajwnese Press aro Voicing a strong protest against the proposed formation of a consortium of British, American, French, and Japanese .hankers for the purpose of extending financial assistance to China. The paper's declare that this plan, would deprive Japan of the special position and privileges which she has heretofore enioved in China. The ‘New York Times’s’ Washington correspondent learns that official advices from Peking state that the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr Aratat) has protested to the Chines© Government against the continued boycott of Japanese goods in Ohinh as a result of Chinese resentment over the Shantung settlement. CHINESE PEACE DELEGATES. WHY THEY STAYED AWAY. PARIS, July 1. (Received July 2, at 10.25 a.m.) The Chinese Peace Delegates were not iiHowed the privilege of making a declaration of their views at the time the Peace Treaty was signed.