LATEST NEWS OCCUPATION OF SHANTUNG

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14592, 16 February 1921, Page 5

LATEST NEWS OCCUPATION OF SHANTUNG

JAPANESE CONSOLIDATING. MANY bis PL'URiNC INCIDENTS. ARMING CHINESE BANDITS. (Australian’ and N.Z. Cable Assn.) deceived 1- I. binary 10, le.o a.m. NEW lUitK, February Id _ Tiic Chicago Tribune s Siiauguai correspondent stales Hud it appeals Unit Japan is steadily consolidating nor position at Smaiiung despite the assurances ilial tile troops would he withdrawn, and Asingiao leluiiud to . Ciuua. incidents indicating an aiubiUon to convert Hie province into Japanese territory, and infringement of China's sovereignty arc practically of daily occurrence. ■pile Japanese administration at Tsingluo forbids Hie Chinese to establish schools, religious societies, newspapers or similar organisations. Japanese companies are minting Chinese copper coins of lighter weight than Hie standard which they arc circulating, not only in shantung, but other parts of Hie country. The most serious charge, howcvei, , is that the Japanese arc arming ( Chinese bandits, who prey on Hie j native population of shantung, robbing i them of the few possessions they have | left with which to struggle .against j famine. Th,; Japanese population at Tsi-nau- j fu claim Ihal Urn Chinese police are incapable of providing Urn necessary | protection, and demand Hie right to organise their own force, one part ol | which is already patrolling Hie city. I More than JUUO Japanese troops are | now stationed along 1 lie Tsini-an-fu-Tsinghio railway. They often destroy crops where they drill without compensation.