| Show MAKINO OUTLINES JAP JAPANS JAPAN'S ANS AN'S POSITION AT PEACE PARLEY Nippon Asking sling Only Things Just Considering Nations Nation's Na Nt- tion's Present and Future Position in Far East Declares n Baron ron P PARIS ID ARTS ARIS Feb 7 Baron Baron 1 Makino the senior Japanese delegate to toI I tho the peace conference has hus prepared for public information a document of words which will be issued next t week Ol outlining ling J Japans Japan's position at atthe I the pence peace conference respecting questions open for s settlement in the far east cast Japan does docs not como come to tb the conference with wint demands the thc statement I says but is asking asking- only those things appear just tous in the light of I Japans Japan's s position in and the future of t the At f. f far th east cast T load a tn r. r GP th fit 00 A L LB L. L sinco Japan opened her doors t to o foreign intercourse trade and political I exchanges cs all treaties and engagements engage engage- ments monts entered Into other countries havo e been kept in good faith In letter and In and with regard for tor the I good namo name of the tho nation nallon and tho the rights of ot others Tho The statement carefully goes OCl O over Or r the main maln facts fact In history In the the- thelast last Jast twenty years ears since sinco tho the Japanese war var when Japan yielding to force majeure was was' obliged ed to give gl up to Russia the territory of oe I Tung Iau-Tung tho the fortress of ot Port Arthur and the tho town of ot Dairen lion hoyt German Slipped In InIn InIn InIn In 1898 the tho document continues continue Geri German German Ger- Ger i man many under pretext of or compensation for tor the murder of or two ml missionaries occupied tho time port of ot Tao and tho the territory of ot Chow Kino and proceeded to build up a 3 great harbor and naval na baa base e. e Throughout the last twenty years Germany had more an and more fIrm firmly I established herself In Shantung provInce province pro pro- vince says sas Huron Buron Makino and was faa gradually s spreading her tentacles all allover allover over oer China Germany German secured concession concession concession con con- cession after concession and arid collecting collecting collect collect- ing InS huge sums Bums as as' indemnities for tor Ute the Boxer rebellion spread tho the propaganda of or will Ill aiming always at nt the tho weakening weak weak- enl ening J othe influence of De other nations iii in th the tai Far Ea Eat East t and adding fresh t fuel el elI I to the fire jre of oC antagonism m against Japan easily l and naturally consequent upon the war of or 1893 Troops Troop In Iii Siberia At After cr a a. brief reference to Siberia In which tho the baron points out that Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese troops were sent with Ith their own agreement with those of ot the United Sta States tes and the thc allies 8 he lie says nays We have havo now withdrawn the major portion of qt these troops and wo we will be bo glad lad when the da day arrives on which all troops ma may be he withdrawn an and anord an ord orderly rl government set up In Russia Referring to the tho Marshall and arid the Caroline groups Croup of ot Islands as peopled b by wild and practically savage sl tribes s Baron Mackino says nays as a's We claim the tho right to occupy these Islands for tor purposes of ot peaceful de de- de A national sense of or dignity nit Inspires tho the whole people of or Japan to the Iho conviction con that nn any other disposition disposition tion of those these Islands would be a reflection reflection tion oft us an and the handing over of or orthe the supervision sUper of ot these thes thee islands would be a n. just recognition or 01 what ser wo we ren rendered ered In maintaining the commerce commerce com corn merce of ot the Pacific and assisting our allies in the tho Indian ocean and tho time Mediterranean Islands Islands' Control Demanded We contend and shall continue to contend that tiu-et Japan should control the tho Islands north of oC the equator and that the tho future of the wild tribes Inhabiting inhabitIng Inhabit inhabit- I In ing tho the 1 Islands must depend upon the development dc of their civilization a n development de of ot which Japan most certain certainly tain will not retard Continuing Baron Daron Makino 1 says ays The government go and people of ot Japan have been the loyal allies of or Great Britain and France and amid we e believe belle ul useful friends to the tIme United States and Russia Hussla It i is iH not for Cor mo nie here to enter Continued on pago 2 1110 MAKINO OUTLINES PLANS PLANS' I OF JAPAN PAN AT PARLEY Continued from Paso Fago 1 I. Into a relation In detail det of the services wo we rendered rendered en ere in to this war It Is suffIcient sufficient sufficient to say 50 that what has hos been given or spent and what has been lost In the c cuse use for which the allies fought and won has b been cn contributed in tho the spirit spirito sympathy and 11 tho the o of loyalty anc and an Japanese delegates ates to this conference are arc here hereto to assist In the work of ot building building build build- In ing up f a against futuro future wars an and In III for forging tho time links of friendship l lIal and Ial understanding b between tween tho the nations of Hie east and nud the west |
