OCR Text |
Show 13 OO- J NOW FOR SIBERIA AND MANCHURIA At last the dispute over Shantung has been settled by China and Japan I igreelng to the terms of settlement. I A treaty Is to be drafted and then tho I long-standing trouble will be ended. China will tafci ovel t&e Tslngtao-I Tslngtao-I Tslnanfu railway, pacing for it in Chi I i.efe treasury DOtefl to COver :i -rlod j I of fifteen years, with a redemption op-I op-I tlon after five years. Among the tl-g tl-g nanclal questions which must bo I cleared up later la the rate ol Intereal j 'Jhlna Bhali pay The hn tor general I of the railway will be t h.m - In i'li! J na every foreign loan railway has i such an official, who supervises the' road. The traffic manager will be a I Japanese, and there will be two chief i ) accountant, one a Chinese, the other a Japanese, who will co-ordinate their lunctlons This is a system which hay been generally adopted In China. It j was made known the restoration ol the j leasehold of TBingtao to China, will I rake place "as early as possible." and not In any event later than six month. after the coming into effect of the j whole Shantung agreement. The salt fields held by Japanese nationals also I will be turned over to China not later jj ihan ai. months after the treaty be comes effective. The TBlngtao Tsiu-anful Tsiu-anful railwav will be handed over to 1 China as earl as possible, but under ! no circumstances later than nine months after Lhi treaty becomes operative. oper-ative. It becomes evident that much stress was placed on Shantung In order thai littlo nilRtit be said of Siberia or Mun I huria Japan ran v,ell aflord to yield in the Shantung affair If, by so doing, her future in Siberia and Manchuria Is not disturbed. Japan, as early as the 1'arln conference, confer-ence, agreed to get out of Shantung, but so far there ha been no assurance assur-ance given that tho Japanese, will cease to spread their tentacles In northern Asia. The obtaining of an understanding A3 to Shantung Is a vlctroy for Hughes and tho American delegation as a whole. Lot us hope that even-lually even-lually American Influence will keep down Japanese aggrandizement on the mainland of Asia in tho territory once tirmly held by the Russians. |