JAPAN THREATENS TO WITHDRAW.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17552, 23 April 1919, Page 9

JAPAN THREATENS TO WITHDRAW.

NEW JORJff, April 18. The "World's" Pans correspondent reports that a Japanese official who wished his name withheld said in an interview that if Japan's position m regard to Kiaochau and Sftantung is not improved by the Peace Conference Japan will withdraw from the Conference and make her own arrangements with Germany. The corieb^'iia^ii.^ continues: "The Japanese position is strengthened by the fact that she holds a secret treaty by Britain, France and Italy in 1916; consigning her certain rights in perpetuity. Japan will not insist upon the treaty rights'l unless compelled to do so. When the question of the race equality amendment Avas considered by the League of Nations Commission, six members, namely, President Wilson, Colonel House, Lord Robert Cecil, and the Polish, Brazilian, and Roumanian delegates, either voted against it or did not vote. There is an authenticated story current in Paris that a deal was made between England and the United States on the equality question, whereby the United States would oppose the amendment, ag; inst which Mr. Lloyd George stood, in order to placate Mr. Hughes. In return, England would yithdraw her objection to the recognition of the Monroe Doctrine.