Show JAPAN WILL GIVE UP SHANTUNG to PROMISE 1 MAE MADE TO 10 BIB FOUR Member l of Nipponese Peace Delegation Says Chinese Must l Negotiate According to Terms of 1915 Treaty I I Iv Be v P PATHS July l i e We We arc are prepared pre pre- pared parel to restore the full territorial terri tern tonal Lenin rights over Kiau l-Gau Chau to China nn within six months A member of the Japanese peace delegation dele made this statement to Universal Se Service ice today For diplomat reasons he requested th that t his n name c. c be be withheld from feat fi b but em h his state state- t t ment m means mans ans ju juat t What that It says lIo llo lIon n We e are exceedingly anxious to settie settle set set- tie tle the whole question and we ask nothing better than the return of or this territory In accordance with the tho treaty of 1915 China Chinn Must Iut t tIt Negotiate It Is necessary however that China enter In Into to negotiations with us which she has hitherto declined to do Jo The Japanese delegate flatly latI denied the assertion of ot Phillippe Millet promInent prominent prominent prom prom- writer on International affairs to tho the effect that Baron Makino chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of tho the Japanese peace commission handed the big four Cour a formal written written writ writ- ten secret undertaking to restore restora Shantung to China Such a written promise continued the correspondents correspondent's Informant already already already al ready Is contained in the treat treaty of or 1915 as well as In the notes of or September 19 1915 iS The Japanese peace delegation will allow no plenipotentiary to doubt the sincerity of or that pledge b by asking ad additional additional additional ad- ad written assurance Admits Assurance 1 e eIt It Jt is true that verbal assurances were given to the big four In this respect but no formal written secret instrument watt was given which anyhow would bo le e entirely superfluous In view of our exl existing formal undertakings Millets Millet's article about the alleged secret se secret se- se c cret written pledge e said In part Baron prom promise Iso to Clemenceau Clemen- Clemen Wilson Lloyd Llod George Georgo and find Orlando Orlando Or Or- lando was secret but ne for tor- I I mal None can doubt Its sincerity However er tho the only wa way to culet ulel American apprehensions I Is to publish the text which Japan should now do cIo France and Britain never nC would have consented consent d to the Shantung clause 1 If they Involved In d the dismemberment of ot China |