JAPS IN CHINA

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4219, 16 February 1921, Page 2

JAPS IN CHINA

DIGGING IN IN SHANTUNG. (B-y Electric Telegr'aph—Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. f'sble Association.) - York. Feb. 14. The Chicago •. Tribune's Shanghai correspondent states: It appears that Japan is steadily consolidating her position at Shantung despite, her assurances that her troops would be withdrawn and Ysingate lie returned to China. Incidents indicating her ambition jo convert the province into Japanese and the infringement of China's sovereignty, are practically a daily occurrence. The Japanese administration at Tsingtao forbids the Chinese to establish schools, religious societies, newspapers or similar public organisations. Japanese companies are minting Chinese copper coins of lighter weight than the standard which are circulating not only in Shantung but in other parts of the country. The most serious, charge, however, is that the Japanese are arming Chinese bandits, who prey on the native population 'of Shantung, robbing them of the few possessions left with which to struggle against the famine. The Japanese population at Tsinanfu claim that the Chinese police are incapable of providing the necessary protection and demand the right \to organise their own force, one part of -which already is patrolling the city. "More than :i()IK) Japanese troops are now stationed along the Tsinenfu-Tsingtab railway and often destroy the crops where they drill, without compensation. ■