SHANTUNG.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4539, 14 March 1922, Page 2

SHANTUNG.

JAPANESE TROOPS TO WITHDRAW. WASHINGTON DELEGATES JUSTIFY TREATY. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asociation.) Tokio, March 12. The Cabinet has decided to begin the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung on April 1. Barons Knto and Sliidehara arrived, heavily guarded. No demonstration was attempted. Baron Kato, answering criticisms, denied that the Japanese delegates were under foreign pressure. He added that while some details of the Washington results were unsatisfactory to Japan, generally speaking all the nations were satisfied.

Count Tokugawa, in a speech, declared (hat the critics of the Pacific Treaty were trying to read into its very plain terms some moral pledge binding the nations .to war as well as peace. That interpretation was too far-fetched to need repudiation.