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Show ASKS AID OF JAPAN. China's Desire to Get Germany Ont of Shan Tung. Tacoma, Wash., May 20. Mail advices ad-vices by the Oriental liner Victoria, say: Nearly all the Tokio journals give publicity to a rumor, apparently emanating from Shanghai, to the effect that Ghina has approached the Japanese Japan-ese government with a request for aid to get Germany out of Shan Tung. The suggestion is that the Peking authorities authori-ties have at last been roused to the imminence im-minence of the dangers threatening the Chinese empire, and to the certainty certain-ty of its disruption unless some stop is put to the unscrupulous demands now constantly preferred by western states. Germany being regarded as the leader in the game of aggression, and Shan Tung possessing special sanctity in Chinese eyes as the birthplace of Confucius, there is a double reason for the desire to get Germany out of the field.. |