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Show or by threatening war. Japan has also played the same game and has just come into the German ' 1 rights ' ' in Shantung temporarily by virtue of a decision of the peace conference which yielded more than it should in tho opinion of a great number of people in the interest of harmony. If the league of nations pact is ratified, sooner or later Japan will be compelled to make good her promises regarding the restoration res-toration of Shantung and China will be freed from all foreign interference. Jf Italy were to be allowed a concession conces-sion at Tientsin, to which it has not the shadow of a claim and which the peace conference has neither legal nor moral right to grant, she would be compelled com-pelled to get out some time in the future fu-ture and she would bo embroiled with the Chinese during the full time of her stay. China has as much right to a concession in Italy as Italy has to a concession in China and the Chinese delegation should at once ask for the bestowal of "rights" at one of the principal Italian ports. ITALY'S ASPIRATIONS. The latest move of tho Italian delegates dele-gates at the peace conference is somewhat some-what surprising, for it was not generally gen-erally known that 'the government at Bome had the least desire to become a power in the Orient. News comes from Paris, however, that the Italian delegation has sent a note to the conference con-ference ashing that Italy be given a concession at Tientsin, China. In times past other European nations have obtained ob-tained concessions in China by force |