Pledges to be Asked of Japan Relating to the Shantung Question

Title

Pledges to be Asked of Japan Relating to the Shantung Question

Creator

Unknown

Date

No date

Source

Robert and Sally Huxley

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museusm

Language

English

Text

Recommendation. (Pledges which may be asked of Japan.)

That an effort be made to secure from the Japanese Delegation at the Peace Conference an official and binding definite statement, a satisfactory form of which would in substance as follows:

1. Japan agrees to restore to China within two years the whole of the Leased Territory of Kiaochow, with all rights and privileges appertaining thereto, on condition that China compensate Japan for the properties relinquished by Germany to Japan within that area and make of the port of Tsingtao an international settlement.

2. Japan agrees to the cancellation of that portion of Article IV of Section II and III of the Convention between Germany and China of March 6, 1898, which reads: “The Chinese Government binds itself in all cases where foreign assistance, in persons, capital or material, may be needed for any purpose whatever within the Province of Shantung, to offer the said work or supplying of materials, in the first instance to German manufacturers and merchants engaged in undertakings of the kind in question.”

Original Format

Letter

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/D60008E.pdf

Citation

Unknown, “Pledges to be Asked of Japan Relating to the Shantung Question,” No date, R. Emmet Condon Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.