SHANTUNG SETTLEMENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 20 August 1919, Page 5

SHANTUNG SETTLEMENT.

SOONER (Hi LATER 'RESUJEESffiN,

WAR.

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Aast'-vAiian and N.Z. Cable Assocfe&Ssi

.'(HeeeivoS 'Aug. 19,5.5 p.m.) ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. Mr Thomas Millard, an "American: ••■writer attached to the Chinese Peace t delegation, expressed the opinion %o <:the Senate Foreign Relations Cont-! • mittee,- when ' hearing evidence m wit% the Slmnttmg Treaty, • that, accofdingi to the unanimous; view-of the 'American ditvfemats at; "'Paris, the setVlemcnt would sooner or | later-result in war in the' Far East.-j 'Mr Millard -«ontinued: "President j "Wilson, after im attempt to get' Japan to modify her terms regarding:! Shantung, learned that the Japanese i Intended, if rfefased Shantang, ■ to : .; ' bolt from tfe Conference a,rid; '• abandon the League of Nations. The ; . other "diplomats' T'kslieved that Japan' ■was .bluffing, but President Wilson • did W. B' ' , ;