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Show Settlement Ends Shantung Struggle Pekin. China and Japan have completed com-pleted settlement of the Shantung controversy as outlined by the terms Df the Washington treaty. China agrees to pay Japan 40,000.000 yen for the Shantung railroad. The payment will be made In fifteen-year Chinese treasury treas-ury notes bearing Interest at 6 per cent. In addition, China pays Japan 16,000,000 yen for all public properties located in the Kiaochow district. Civil and military admin'stration will be tamed over to Chiua on December 10, while the Shantung railway will be transferred to Chinese authority on January 1. ' China, as a direct result of the Washington conference, thus regains control of territory which she lost when it was seized by Germany in 1808. |