Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-12-18 | Page 3 | Keep Huns from Pacific, Says Japanese

KEEP HUNS FROM1 PACIFIC, SAYS ! JAPANESE i i Former Prime Minister Out-; lines Peace Terms of j Nippon. j ! TOkin. Nov. IS (Correspondence of j I the Associated Press . Official Japan i-tn- silent as to what Japan will ask ; lit the peace conference, but- Marquis i i Shigennhu nkuma. the venerable ex ' prime minister, has Riven out a state I I merit i what he thmka Japan I p'-a.-e terms should be I The marquis says that Jn pan should approve all decisions to he reached i bv t.rcat Hrltain, France and the j I nited State, so far as the territorial terri-torial alteration on the western front.) central Kuroe. the Halkana and the African colonies Hre concerned, be- ; c.-i use Japan has therein no direct interest. 1 As to the future of Germany and j Hussta. Japan's attitude should be i d ided In accordance with the conclusions con-clusions reached by the allied conference, con-ference, but the fundamental principle of settlement shuulil hp thn niuvaiaal . desire to obtain permanent peace. The other iolnts which the marquis maken are art follows: j "The future of the Samoan Islands ' should be decided with the intention of destroy inx ierman bases in the I Pacific. ; "(Icnn.in New fluinca. which In nowi occupied by the tpth renn nel to tiermany" The principle j should also Ih applicable to the Jiia-marck Jiia-marck islands. Japan should hold Islands like-Marshall. like-Marshall. Caroline and others, which' aie now occupied by the Japanese I navy, as it Is dangerous to return j them to Germany and as there in no reason to let th other powers occupy I I them. I j "The cable line between Tslngtao 1 i and ttie southern inlands, which is j ; now occupied by the Japanese navy, (should be held by Japan. J "The problems relating to Siberia should be settled bv the allied con- ference, hut all the allied powern 1 should refrain from any demand for J acquiring ron'esnon in Siberia. i J "The relations between t'hina nnd : other powers should le bawed upon j the principle of oen door and equal 1 opportunity." I